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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	And we'd be left looking for a symbol for bitwise inversion.

Who needs negation when you have bitwise inversion?

minusx = ~x + 1

I know, it doesn't work for floats, but that's just
a simple matter of defining ~ on floats appropriately...

-- 
Greg