Re: The 4 negations of Lua

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 17/09/16 02:18 AM, Martin wrote:
> On 16-09-05 12:29 PM, Soni L. wrote:
> > Lua has 4 forms of negation:
> >
> > -
> > ~
> > not
> > ~=
> >
> > Yet only 2 of them can be overloaded.
> >
> > It's cool that Lua has 4 forms of negation tho.
> As I understand "-" is for general numbers, "~" for integer numbers,
> "not" for general logic and "~=" for equivalence logic. From them only
> "~=" may be dropped and reformulated as "not ==".

What, "~true" isn't a good replacement for "not true"? A boolean has a 
single bit so bitwise negation on booleans makes sense...

> Also you may count table.insert(), t[#t + 1], "+" and ".." as addition.

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