--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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).
Cool - double-edged. I've never encountered that error message before, and in retrospect I think Ton's use for it would be more commonly useful than mine. What did I say about so much to learn...? Phil ===== -- "One cannot delete the Web browser from KDE without losing the ability to manage files on the user's own hard disk." - Prof. Stuart E Madnick, MIT. So called "expert" witness for Microsoft. 2002/05/02 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
