En op 12 juli 2002 sprak FatPhil: > So I'd call it a high-precedence -1 trick rather than a > prefix -1 trick.
I think the main point of Ton's trick is to get around that annoying "use of pop without parens is ambiguous" error message when you use: pop-1 I have seen others work around this with: pop()-1 or: -1+pop but Ton's: ~-pop; is better (and I admit I hadn't noticed it before). /-\
