--, a string of two
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-mi ...
characters, may approximate or refer to:
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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 ...
(–)
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Em 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 ...
(—), as a typewriter approximation
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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 ...
(--), the email and Usenet signature delimiter
* For Unix-like operating system commands, used as a prefix for
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 alternativ ...
s. By itself, it typically means the end of command options.
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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 s ...
in some programming languages
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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
* F ...
s in some programming languages
See also
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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 comm ...
(one above the other)
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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 ...
,
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Horizontal rule
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 ...
, which is represented by
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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
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