Example: Compute the absolute value

public static int main (string[] args) {
// Output:
// ``10``
// ``99``
// ``1``
// ``9``
print ("%d\n", 10.abs ());
print ("%d\n", 99.abs ());
print ("%d\n", (-1).abs ());
print ("%d\n", (-9).abs ());

return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 int.abs.vala

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