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And why would you draw that distinction for unary operators but not binary ones?

I wouldn't -- I think it's wrong for binary operators too.



Fair enough, but that most definitely isn't djacobs's case considering the replacement snippet he wrote.


I don't really want to speak for him, but what I got from his post was that he was saying that the unary syntax is as bad as C++'s (imho retarded) cout syntax.




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