Tim Matthews wrote:
Don wrote:
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
Don I thought you were the one who created the patch
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3481
What was your reason for the choice of left associativity?
It was a quick patch to determine if Walter could be swayed to include
it, if he didn't need to implement it. I didn't get any positive
feedback about it until it was put into svn.
