On Saturday, 23 September 2017 at 20:43:36 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
So I checked for all the languages listed: C, C#, Java,
Javascript, C++, PHP, Perl and D. All have the same order of
precedence except, as always the abomination of all languages:
C++ (kill it with fire).
C++ is the only language that has the ternary operator have the
same precedence than the assignment operators.
This means a>=5?b=100:b=200; will compile in C++ but not in all
the other languages. That's one reason why it irritates me when
people continuously refer to C and C++ as if it was the same
thing (yes I mean you Walter and Andrei).
Even PHP and Perl got it right, isn't that testament of poor
taste Bjarne?. :-)
It's not quite as big of a deal as it seems because of the RTL
associativity for both of them but still a very weird thing at
face value.
