The “–” is a double unary operator. It’s used to change the sign of the value twice.
If you use them for numbers, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, because you will end with the same number that you had before the operation.
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5 = -(-5) |
This operator is a shorthand method to convert TRUE and FALSE to 1 and 0.
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-TRUE = -1 --TRUE = --1 = 1 -FALSE = 0 --FALSE = 0 |
You can use only one minus for FALSE because zero is neither a positive or a negative number.
