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unaryop

Draft MDC Standard

7.1.4.11 Unary operator unaryop

    unaryop::=


'
+
-



      (Note: apostrophe)
 
(Note: hyphen)

There are three unary operators: ' (not), + (plus), and (minus).

Not inverts the truth value of the expratom immediately to its right. The value of 'expratom is 1 if the truth-value interpretation of expratom is 0; otherwise its value is 0. Note that '' performs the truth-value interpretation.

Plus is merely an explicit means of taking a numeric interpretation. The value of +expratom is the numeric interpretation of the value of expratom.

Minus negates the numeric interpretation of expratom. The value of -expratom is the numeric interpretation of -N, where N is the value of expratom.

Note that the order of application of unary operators is right-to-left.

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