>>> Do you know why? Thanks!
>>
>> I'm not sure why precedence was defined that
>> way, though.
Scott> Because it is consistent with C's precedence rules.
True enough, however Python doesn't support negative numbers as individual
tokens at the lexical analysis level. -3.41 is '-' followed by '3.41'. In
C it's a single token resolved at compile time. In the not-too-distant past
negative numeric constants were tried, but that caused some other grief. I
can't remember what.
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