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;

[–] OshaqHennessey@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just tested it in PowerShell. Works fine

$i = 1
$x = -$i
$x

Outputs -1

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Works fine in any language I ever used.

I'm honestly quite surprised that this very basic language feature is even a matter of discussion here.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It certainly makes me question a lot of things. This sub somehow manages to both feed my impostor syndrome and makong me feel like a genius programmer depending on the thread.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Totally, yes. I guess there's a ton of non-programmers and total beginners in this community.

But sometimes there are some crazy good programmers here as well.

What's really weird though is that I got two downvotes a bit further up for claiming that unary minus is a standard language feature.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I saw that. It's weird because I've used it without a second thought in tons of different languages and never had issues with it

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