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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Suprise of comparison result
Date: 1999/10/19
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> To test your understanding, what is the result of
> 
> -5 mod 3
> 
> Most people get this wrong!

Which indicates that (this part of) the language is poorly designed.
But it could be fixed by changing the precedences -- you wouldn't have to
make "-5" be a literal.

It seems to me that unary operators should never be lower precedence
than binary operators.  Do you agree with this language design
principle?

- Bob
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Change robert to bob to get my real email address.  Sorry.