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More code = more better (lemmy.zip)
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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (16 children)

x = -i;

Do many languages let you do that? When it's in front of a variable I would've expected it to be a subtraction operator only and you would need to do x = -1 * i;

[–] quilan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

But of course -- It's just flipping around the -= operator!

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That only works if x is already 0

If i is 10 and x is zero, yes, x -= i would have a value of -10. If x was 5 from something else previously, x-=i would end with an x value of -5.

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