U+2212 Minus Sign in Computer Languages?

[Alex Plantema]

Op do 03-11-2022 om 02:46 schreef Tim Partridge via Unicode:
> I suspect most programming languages follow the unification of hyphen and minus on typewriter keyboards which led to early character standards doing the same.
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> Also number formatting and parsing routines use the dual use character for negative numbers and tend not to recognise U+2122.
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Such a unification isn't possible in postfix notation, unless negations are replaced by subtractions from zero.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46861254/infix-to-postfix-for-negative-numbers

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Alex.
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