1 Sep
2013
1 Sep
'13
12:21 p.m.
On 13-09-01 02:41 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
It's a bit like asking whether you can do addition everywhere by just typing the numbers to each other (no cheating and defining number literals as functions ;) ).
To your horror, common math language does some of that. When 3 and ½ are typed next to each other, i.e., 3½ it is addition. See also page 8 in http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF or look for "Invisible operators" in http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1300.html