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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

-- (minus, minus)

In postfix notation, an operator which reduces (decrements) the value of a variable. So var-- is the same as var=var-1.

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decrementpostfix notationprefix notation- (minus)++ (plus, plus)
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