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Delphi in a Nutshell
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Delphi in a Nutshell

by Ray Lischner
March 2000
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
18h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Not Keyword

Syntax

not Boolean expression
not Integer expression

Description

The not operator performs a negation. If the operand has type Boolean, the negative is a logical negation (not False = True and not True = False). If the operand is an integer, the not operator performs a bitwise negation of each bit in the integer value. In other words, it performs a complement operation.

Tips and Tricks

The ByteBool, LongBool, and WordBool types interpret any non-zero ordinal value as True. When not returns True, it always returns an ordinal value of -1. In other words, not not X does not always have the same ordinal value as X. If the ordinal value of a logical variable matters, you should use an integer type and not a logical type.

See Also

And Keyword, Boolean Type, False Constant, Integer Type, Or Keyword, True Constant, Xor Keyword
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