For what it is worth, I would recommend living with the legacy of M's, but not writing any new code that RELIES on it.
So never write this: A+B*C replace instead with this: (A+B)*C The parentheses are redundant but consistant with other languages. Kevin On 8/16/05, Richard G. DAVIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course! Doh! > > I am going back into my cave. :-) > > Richard. > > > From: Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:32:17 -0700 (PDT) > > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] MUMPS features > > > > richard Davis wrote: > >> I believe that within the context of a global subscript, the values are > all > >> strings. No distinction is made between what one may call 'numbers' and > all > >> other concatenations of characters. Only as the subscript values are > >> interpreted outside of the context of an global subscript value do > >> characters become 'numbers'. Is this not so? > > > > Not so. The recognition of canonic numbers is integral to the collation > order > > of > > subscripts. Canonic numbers, such as 1, 9999999, 1.0005, -5, collate in > > numeric order and > > precede all other subscript values at the same level, including strings > > composed entirely > > of digits, such as "0000" or "1.000". > > > ... > .... > ..... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
