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On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:14:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:

>So in an alternate universe where Guido was less influenced by C, or where
>he wasn't as good as writing parsers as the real GvR is, we may have ended
>up with ~ for unary minus and no unary plus.

	And we'd be left looking for a symbol for bitwise inversion.
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