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   Claudio Saavedra to All   
   Re: silly question: prefix vs postfix op   
   03 Mar 08 16:24:45   
   
   From: csaavedra@alumnos.utalca.cl   
      
   El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 10:37 -0800, MattR escribiC3:   
   > Why is it !a and not a!   
      
   Well, in this particular case, for me, "a!" has a very different meaning   
   in a very different context (factorial function), and well, in logic,   
   the negation operator has been always a prefix one: "B,a". So I'm   
   definitively more comfortable with the prefix approach.   
      
   Claudio   
      
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