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There are the basic math precedences which language designers then extend with various others. To paraphrase Guy Steele[0] - with the exception of what you lea
by earleybird 5y ago
There are the basic math precedences which language designers then extend with various others.
To paraphrase Guy Steele[0] - with the exception of what you learnt in high school, precedence should be eliminated from languages.
[0] any of his talks/papers on meta notation - sorry I don't have a link handy
- redbar0n 5y agomaybe not even with the exception of what you learnt in high school…? It was ambivalent then, and people even struggle with remembering and applying PEMDAS years later.. wouldn’t it be better - for humans & computers alike - if application of algebra was completely uniform, chronological, and predictable?