U+2212 Minus Sign in Computer Languages?

[Tim Partridge]

According to Wikipedia, APL uses U+2122 for negation and subtraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols It references https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/apl-rep/n1.html

I suspect most programming languages follow the unification of hyphen and minus on typewriter keyboards which led to early character standards doing the same.

Also number formatting and parsing routines use the dual use character for negative numbers and tend not to recognise U+2122.

   Tim
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Subject: U+2212 Minus Sign in Computer Languages?

Is there any computer language that uses U+2212 as minus sign?

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