On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: > Wow .. never heard of Concatenative_languages languages before or the > distinction you make. Your distinction explains the behavior, but I > find it somewhat counter-intuitive. (I use the Python interpreter frequently > for small calculations - otherwise I'd never have realized this)
Well I think of it like this -3**2, because of the order of operations as you know, groups as -(3**2) now if you set x to -3, (-3) is now automatically, inseparably grouped. so in a sense by setting x to that you're grouping it. x == (-3) x**2 == (-3)**2 if it still seems counterintuitive, what about the fact that it's exactly the same way in Algebra? basic algebra: -3(superscript)2 is -9 but if x is -3, then x(superscript)2 is 9 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
