In <ubo3r.20367$kv1.9...@newsfe03.iad>, on 02/29/2012 at 11:43 AM, Chiron <chiron...@gmail.com> said:
>Sure, mathematically it *should* go a particular way, No. Mathematically it should go the way that it is defined to go. There is nothing in Mathematics that either requires or prohibits infix notation in programming languages, or even in Mathematical notation. >it makes sense to keep things as clear as possible. Often infix notation with well thought out precedence is the clearest way to go. RPN and the like have their place, but often are difficult for real people to read. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
