• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    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
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      1 day 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.