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Subject: Re: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler
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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:48:29 +0100
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"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote in message 
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<snip>

> Interestingly, that example works in ALGOL 68, which generally speaking is
> as pernickety a language as you are likely to get.
>
> --x works too. Essentially, all the monadic operators have a higher
> preference than the dyadic ones.

It can also work in Ada - just not as an arithmetic operation ;-)
      MyLongNameResult := MyLongNameInput--2
                                          +MyLongNameAddend;

I have never really been enamoured with the Ada choice of comment marker, 
especially when there were many other unused/lesser used characters 
available.

-- 
Stuart