bearophile wrote:
KennyTM~:
But the mathematical convention is a^b^c == a^(b^c).
Languages which the power operator is right-associative (3^3^3==7e12):
- Python, Haskell, Ruby, Perl, Mathematica, Bash.
Doing things as in mathematical convention, Mathematica and Python sounds
better.
This was just the release V.0.1 of the built-in pow, it needs several
improvements :-)
Bye,
bearophile
Fortran too.
Here's a link from the TCL language, with a nice explanation of the
rationale for choosing right associativity.
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/274.html
