pub enum UnaryOp {
IncrementPost,
IncrementPre,
DecrementPost,
DecrementPre,
Minus,
Plus,
Not,
Tilde,
TypeOf,
Delete,
Void,
}Expand description
A unary operator is one that takes a single operand/argument and performs an operation.
A unary operation is an operation with only one operand. This operand comes either before or after the operator. Unary operators are more efficient than standard JavaScript function calls.
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Variants
IncrementPost
The increment operator increments (adds one to) its operand and returns a value.
Syntax: ++x
This operator increments and returns the value after incrementing.
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IncrementPre
The increment operator increments (adds one to) its operand and returns a value.
Syntax: x++
This operator increments and returns the value before incrementing.
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DecrementPost
The decrement operator decrements (subtracts one from) its operand and returns a value.
Syntax: --x
This operator decrements and returns the value before decrementing.
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DecrementPre
The decrement operator decrements (subtracts one from) its operand and returns a value.
Syntax: x--
This operator decrements the operand and returns the value after decrementing.
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Minus
The unary negation operator precedes its operand and negates it.
Syntax: -x
Converts non-numbers data types to numbers like unary plus, however, it performs an additional operation, negation.
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Plus
The unary plus operator attempts to convert the operand into a number, if it isn’t already.
Syntax: +x
Although unary negation (-) also can convert non-numbers, unary plus is the fastest and preferred
way of converting something into a number, because it does not perform any other operations on the number.
It can convert string representations of integers and floats, as well as the non-string values true, false, and null.
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Not
Returns false if its single operand can be converted to true; otherwise, returns true.
Syntax: !x
Boolean values simply get inverted: !true === false and !false === true.
Non-boolean values get converted to boolean values first, then are negated.
This means that it is possible to use a couple of NOT operators in series to explicitly
force the conversion of any value to the corresponding boolean primitive.
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Tilde
Performs the NOT operator on each bit.
Syntax: ~x
NOT a yields the inverted value (or one’s complement) of a.
Bitwise NOTing any number x yields -(x + 1). For example, ~-5 yields 4.
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TypeOf
The typeof operator returns a string indicating the type of the unevaluated operand.
Syntax: typeof x or typeof(x)
The typeof is a JavaScript keyword that will return the type of a variable when you call it.
You can use this to validate function parameters or check if variables are defined.
There are other uses as well.
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Delete
The JavaScript delete operator removes a property from an object.
Syntax: delete x
Unlike what common belief suggests, the delete operator has nothing to do with directly freeing memory. Memory management is done indirectly via breaking references. If no more references to the same property are held, it is eventually released automatically.
The delete operator returns true for all cases except when the property is an
own
non-configurable
property, in which case, false is returned in non-strict mode.
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Void
The void operator evaluates the given expression and then returns undefined.
Syntax: void x
This operator allows evaluating expressions that produce a value into places where an
expression that evaluates to undefined is desired.
The void operator is often used merely to obtain the undefined primitive value, usually using void(0)
(which is equivalent to void 0). In these cases, the global variable undefined can be used.
When using an immediately-invoked function expression,
void can be used to force the function keyword to be treated as an expression instead of a declaration.
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