On 3/12/2012 20:00, Albert van der Horst wrote:
[...]
Sorry for triple posting. I hadn't noticed the follow up and I was
blaming my newsserver.
BTW, Python is the next language (right after Perl) I'm going to learn.
Then I'll probably have a look at Ruby...
Kiuhnm
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On 3/12/2012 20:00, Albert van der Horst wrote:
In article<4f5df4b3$0$1375$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>,
Kiuhnm wrote:
On 3/12/2012 12:27, Albert van der Horst wrote:
Interestingly in mathematics associative means that it doesn't matter
whether you use (a.b).c or a.(b.c).
Using xxx-associativ
On 3/12/2012 20:00, Albert van der Horst wrote:
In article<4f5df4b3$0$1375$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>,
Kiuhnm wrote:
On 3/12/2012 12:27, Albert van der Horst wrote:
Interestingly in mathematics associative means that it doesn't matter
whether you use (a.b).c or a.(b.c).
Using xxx-associativ
On 3/12/2012 20:00, Albert van der Horst wrote:
In article<4f5df4b3$0$1375$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>,
Kiuhnm wrote:
On 3/12/2012 12:27, Albert van der Horst wrote:
Interestingly in mathematics associative means that it doesn't matter
whether you use (a.b).c or a.(b.c).
Using xxx-associativ
In article <4f5df4b3$0$1375$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it>,
Kiuhnm wrote:
>On 3/12/2012 12:27, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>> Interestingly in mathematics associative means that it doesn't matter
>> whether you use (a.b).c or a.(b.c).
>> Using xxx-associativity to indicate that it *does* matter is
On 3/12/2012 12:27, Albert van der Horst wrote:
Interestingly in mathematics associative means that it doesn't matter
whether you use (a.b).c or a.(b.c).
Using xxx-associativity to indicate that it *does* matter is
a bit perverse, but the Perl people are not to blame if they use
a term in their u
In article <0078bbfb-5dfc-48fc-af1a-69de3cf15...@b1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Xah Lee wrote:
>New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
>
>A excerpt from the new book =E3=80=88Modern Perl=E3=80=89, just published, =
>chapter 4
>on =E2=80=9COperators=E2=80=9D. Quote:
>
>=C2
On 3/2/2012 14:12, Xah Lee wrote:
On Mar 1, 3:00 am, Kiuhnm wrote:
They did not make up the terminology, if that is what you are saying.
The concepts of left and right associativity are well-known and accepted
in TCS (Theoretical CS).
Aho, Sethi and Ullman explain it this way in "Compilers:
On Mar 1, 3:00 am, Kiuhnm wrote:
> They did not make up the terminology, if that is what you are saying.
> The concepts of left and right associativity are well-known and accepted
> in TCS (Theoretical CS).
> Aho, Sethi and Ullman explain it this way in "Compilers: Principles,
> Techniques and T
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:09:16 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Xah, you won't grow even an inch taller by cutting others down.
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First of all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jKMEB4hHE
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:09:16AM -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
> Now, let me tell you what operator precedence is. First of all, let's
> limit ourselfs to discuss operators that are so-called binary
> operators, which, in our context, basically m
On 3/1/2012 1:02, Xah Lee wrote:
i missed a point in my original post. That is, when the same operator
are adjacent. e.g. 「3 ▲ 6 ▲ 5」.
This is pointed out by Kiuhnm 〔kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it〕 and Tim Bradshaw.
Thanks.
though, i disagree the way they expressed it, or any sense this is
different from
i missed a point in my original post. That is, when the same operator
are adjacent. e.g. 「3 ▲ 6 ▲ 5」.
This is pointed out by Kiuhnm 〔kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it〕 and Tim Bradshaw.
Thanks.
though, i disagree the way they expressed it, or any sense this is
different from math.
to clarify, amend my origin
On Feb 29, 5:09 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
>
> A excerpt from the new book 〈Modern Perl〉, just published, chapter 4
> on “Operators”. Quote:
>
> «The associativity of an operator governs whether it evaluates from
> left to right or right t
On 2/29/2012 16:15, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
[...] 'mathematics' (an essentially
outdated write-only programming language dating back to the times
when humans had to perform computations themselves) [...]
Theoretical Computer Science is a branch of mathematics. Are you saying
it is outdated?
K
Xah Lee writes:
> A excerpt from the new book 〈Modern Perl〉, just published, chapter 4
> on “Operators”. Quote:
>
> «The associativity of an operator governs whether it evaluates from
> left to right or right to left. Addition is left associative, such
> that 2 + 3 + 4 evaluates 2 + 3 first, then
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Chiron wrote:
> Personally, I think this whole issue of precedence in a programming
> language is over-rated. It seems to me that grouping of any non-trivial
> set of calculations should be done so as to remove any possible confusion
> as to intent.
Some language
On 2/29/2012 9:09, Xah Lee wrote:
New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
A excerpt from the new book 〈Modern Perl〉, just published, chapter 4
on “Operators”. Quote:
«The associativity of an operator governs whether it evaluates from
left to right or right to left. Addi
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:09:16 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
Personally, I think this whole issue of precedence in a programming
language is over-rated. It seems to me that grouping of any non-trivial
set of calculations should be done so as to remove any possible confusion
as to intent. It is one more
New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
A excerpt from the new book 〈Modern Perl〉, just published, chapter 4
on “Operators”. Quote:
«The associativity of an operator governs whether it evaluates from
left to right or right to left. Addition is left associative, such
that
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