Re: [BLACKBOX] Negation

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:13:09 -0400

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It is true in any programming language.

W

> I just learned that in CP one can not negate an integer type (BYTE,
> SHORTINT, INTEGER, LONGINT)
> because the ABS(MIN(type)) # MAX(type), i.e. the range is not
> symmetric about zero.
>
> That caught me off guard.
>
> -Doug Danforth
>
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