Re: Dangling else

SM Ryan <wyrmwif@tsoft.org>
5 Mar 2006 02:16:55 -0500

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From: SM Ryan <wyrmwif@tsoft.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Mar 2006 02:16:55 -0500
Organization: Quick STOP Groceries
References: 06-02-171
Keywords: syntax
Posted-Date: 05 Mar 2006 02:16:55 EST

"Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
# > [I don't know anyone who thinks that C's million levels of precedences
# > are a good idea. Back in the 1950s, it seemed reasonable in Fortran
# > for exponentiation to bind tighter than multiplication and division
# > which bound tighter than addition and subtraction, in line with most
# > mathemetical notation, and then it got away from us. How do you like
# > the APL rule that everything binds and associates the same? -John]
#
# I haven't used APL much, but troff expressions have the same
# rule--everything left to right, equal precedence--and there I find it


Actually APL is right to left,
1+2*3-1
is
1+(2*(3-(1)))


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SM Ryan http://www.rawbw.com/~wyrmwif/
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