17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
4:17 p.m.
I'd also argue that in maths the necessary brackets are implied by the superscripting syntax
ASCII text parsing issues aside, in math, 2 -4 = ? (No you cannot ask if there is space between the 4 and the - symbol, or if I "meant" (-4)^2 or -(4^2), or if I wrote a negative sign or a subtract sign. I believe there is only one standard interpretation here.)
they can only get in through the "back door" of evaluation which just doesn't seem right.
Constant folding can eliminate any runtime cost, so effectively 0 - 2 ==> negative 2 at compile time. No problem. Jared -- http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:"