14 Mar
2008
14 Mar
'08
9:02 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Michael Marcin wrote:
Paul A Bristow wrote:
A little googling shows that various people have already invented "posate" as the opposite of 'negate' and this makes much more sense to me, even if it hasn't made it into the Oxford English Dictionary yet.
I like posate.
I don't. +x and -x are entirely different beasts. Negative/negate is an action; generally (x)!=(-x) and (x)==(-(-x)). Positive is not; generally (x)==(+x). The closest action is identity(x), not abs(x) since (+x)!=abs(x). But identity is a poor name since it is generally considered to be different than +. For example, "identity(x)==+x" is fine but "identity(5)==+5" feels wrong. Joel's affirm falls into the same category as identity. ~ Daniel