Re: Strange Operators (Was: Why I leave Lua)

[Michael Richter <ttmrichter@...>]

On 10 July 2014 08:03, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:

What other strange operators have been spotted in the wild?

In SML ~ is the unary negative.  You don't write -5.  You write ~5. 

- -5;
stdIn:12.1 Error: _expression_ or pattern begins with infix identifier "-"
stdIn:12.1-12.3 Error: operator and operand don't agree [literal]
  operator domain: 'Z * 'Z
  operand:             int
  in _expression_:
    - 5
- ~5;
val it = ~5 : int

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