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Unary Value Expressions

Common form

<#operator#> <#argument_value_expression#>

Brief

Operation	Code Example	Valid types	Result type	Comment
Not	not arg	Bool, Word8, Integer	type(arg)
Neg	-arg	Integer, Float	type(arg)
Ref	&arg	Any	Pointer to type(arg)
Deref	*arg	Pointer	type(arg)#to

Not

Logical form (Requires Bool argument) Returns true when argument is false, otherwise returns false.

Bitwise form (Requires Integer or Bool argument)

Valid argument type: Bool, Word8, Integer

	not x

Neg

Returns true when left is not equal to the right, otherwise returns false.

Valid argument type: Integer, Float

	-x

Ref

Returns pointer to type(argument)

	&x

Deref

Returns the value pointed to by the argument

Valid argument type: Pointer

	*x

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