Re: [FWP] Fun with terminology

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 02:44 PM 10/29/99 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Peter Scott wrote:
> > Incidentally, can someone explain to me why perlop uses the term 'prefix'
> > here:
> >
> >       Here is what C has that Perl doesn't:
> >
> >       unary * Dereference-address operator. (Perl's prefix
> >               dereferencing operators are typed: $, @, %, and &.)
> >
> > instead of 'unary'?  It seems to me that the Perl dereferencing operators
> > are just as unary as C's *, so I'm wondering why the mix of terminology in
> > the same paragraph.
>
>"unary" carries less information.
>Prefix and postfix operators are both unary.

Hmm, tell that to a LISP programmer:

(/ 6 3) => 2



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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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