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More code = more better (lemmy.zip)

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally I would expect it to behave the same in front of a numeric literal and in front of a variable. I do think most languages do that, but I haven't actually tested that many and could br wrong.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty much all languages do that. It's a very basic language feature inherited from basic maths notation. Same as x - y subtracts y from x in pretty much any language that supports operators.