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	-- (other) --, a string of two hyphen-minus characters, may approximate or refer to: * En dash (–) * Em dash (—), as a typewriter approximation * Sig dashes (--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter * For Unix-like operating system commands, used as a prefix for long options. By itself, it typically means the end of command options. * The decrement operator in some programming languages * Inline comments in some programming languages See also * Double hyphen (one above the other) * HTML comment tag, * Horizontal rule, which is represented by ---- in MediaWiki MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker,mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2001-August/000382.html, Magnus Manske's announc ... markup {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hyphen-minus The symbol , known in Unicode as hyphen-minus, is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash, so it is also used for these. The name ''hyphen-minus'' derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called ''hyphen (minus)''. The character is referred to as a ''hyphen'', a ''minus sign'', or a ''dash'' according to the context where it is being used. Description In early typewriters and character encodings, a single key/code was almost always used for hyphen, minus, various dashes, and strikethrough, since they all have a similar appearance. The current Unicode Standard specifies distinct characters for several different dashes, an unambiguous minus sign (sometimes called the ''Unicode minus'') at code point U+2212, an unambiguous hyphen (sometimes called the ''Unicode hyphen'') at U+2010, the hyphen-minus at U+002D and a variety of other hyphen symbols for various uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	En Dash The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. Typical uses of dashes are to mark a break in a sentence, to set off an explanatory remark (similar to parenthesis), or to show spans of time or ranges of values. The em dash is sometimes used as a leading character to identify the source of a quoted text. History In the early 17th century, in Okes-printed plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in ''King Lear'' reprinted 1619) or com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sig Dashes A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file, .sig, dot sig, siggy, or just sig) is a personalized block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an email message, Usenet article, or forum post. Email and Usenet An email signature is a block of text appended to the end of an email message often containing the sender's name, address, phone number, disclaimer or other contact information. "Traditional" internet cultural .sig practices assume the use of monospaced ASCII text because they pre-date MIME and the use of HTML in email. In this tradition, it is common practice for a signature block to consist of one or more lines containing some brief information on the author of the message such as phone number and email address, URLs for sites owned or favoured by the author—but also often a quotation (occasionally automatically generated by such tools as fortune), or an ASCII art picture. Among some groups of people it has been common to include se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Long Option A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternative to the non-interactive mode available with punched cards. For a long time, a CLI was the most common interface for software, but today a graphical user interface (GUI) is more common. Nonetheless, many programs such as operating system and software development utilities still provide CLI. A CLI enables automating programs since commands can be stored in a script file that can be used repeatedly. A script allows its contained commands to be executed as group; as a program; as a command. A CLI is made possible by command-line interpreters or command-line processors, which are programs that execute input commands. Alternatives to a CLI include a GUI (including the desktop metaphor such as Windows), text-based menuing (including DOS S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Decrement Operator Increment and decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one. They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like languages feature two versions (pre- and post-) of each operator with slightly different semantics. In languages syntactically derived from B (including C and its various derivatives), the increment operator is written as ++ and the decrement operator is written as --. Several other languages use inc(x) and dec(x) functions. The increment operator increases, and the decrement operator decreases, the value of its operand by 1. The operand must have an arithmetic or pointer data type, and must refer to a modifiable data object. Pointers values are increased (or decreased) by an amount that makes them point to the next (or previous) element adjacent in memory. In languages that support both versions of the operators: * The ''pre''-increment and ''pre''-decrement operators increment (or decrement) their oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Inline Comment This article compares the syntax of many notable programming languages. Expressions Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures: ;prefix notation * Lisp (* (+ 2 3) (expt 4 5)) ;infix notation * Fortran (2 + 3) * (4 ** 5) ;suffix, postfix, or Reverse Polish notation * Forth 2 3 + 4 5 ** * ;math-like notation * TUTOR (2 + 3)(45) $$ note implicit multiply operator Statement delimitation A language that supports the statement construct typically has rules for one or more of the following aspects: * Statement terminator marks the end of a statement * Statement separator demarcates the boundary between two statements; not needed for the last statement * Line continuation escapes a newline to continue a statement on the next line Some languages define a special character as a terminator while some, called ''line-oriented'', rely on the newline. Typically, a line-oriented language includes a line continuation feature whereas other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Double Hyphen In Latin script, the double hyphen is a punctuation mark that consists of two parallel hyphens (). It was a development of the earlier , which developed from a Central European variant of the virgule slash, originally a form of scratch comma. Similar marks (see below) are used in other scripts. In order to avoid it being confused with the equals sign , the double hyphen is often shown as a double oblique hyphen in modern typography. The double hyphen is also not to be confused with two consecutive hyphens (-), which are often used to represent an em dash or en dash due to the limitations of typewriters and keyboards that do not have distinct hyphen and dash keys. Usage The double hyphen is used for several different purposes throughout the world: * Some typefaces, such as Fraktur faces, use the double hyphen as a glyphic variant of the single hyphen. (With Fraktur faces, such a double hyphen is usually oblique.) * It may be also used for artistic or commercial purpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	HTML Comment Tag An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 and there have since been many versions of HTML. The current de facto standard is governed by the industry group WHATWG and is known as the HTML Living Standard. An HTML document is composed of a tree structure, tree of simple HTML Node (computer science), nodes, such as text nodes, and HTML elements, which add semantics and formatting to parts of a document (e.g., make text bold, organize it into paragraphs, lists and tables, or embed hyperlinks and images). Each element can have HTML attributes specified. Elements can also have content, including other elements and text. Concepts Elements vs. tags As is generally understood, the position of an element is indicated as spanning from a start tag and is terminated by an end tag. This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]