Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:31:04 +1000, John Machin wrote: > > >>>>You don't need the sissy parentheses; '%c' * len(t) % t works just fine :-) >>> >>> >>>Ah, ok. Didn't want to lookup the precedence rules... >> >> >>Look up the precedence rules? Are you aware of any language where * / >>and % _don't_ have the same precedence?? > > > Do languages like Pascal that don't have string formatting expressions, or > use the % operator, count?
A thousand pardons; I should have said "Are you aware of any language which has % (as primarily a numeric remainder/modulo operator) but * / and % _don't_ have the same precedence??" OK, given a language which does have * and / used among other things for numerical multiply and divide, (a) are you aware of any such language which does does not have * and / at the same precedence level (b) supposing one wanted to introduce % as a numerical remainder/modulo/whatever operator (plus other meaning(s) for non-numeric types), would you care to argue that it should not have the same precedence level (as * and /)? Pascal was/is a prime example of bad precedence choice: a > b or c > d means a > (b or c) > d in Pascal (not very useful) and (a > b) or (c > d) in many other languages. > > How about languages like Forth that don't have precedence rules at all, > unless "first come, first served" is a precedence rule? No precedence rules -> no relevance to the topic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
