Pow operator precedence

[Andrew Wiley]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 January 2012 14:48, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is the third time I see people trip on power operator precedence:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7268
>>
>> Some people expect this:
>> (-10 ^^ 2)
>> To be 100 instead of -100
>> (Note: Python here uses the same operator precedences.)
>>
>> Do you think it's worth (and possible) to help D programmers avoid this
>> mistake in their code?
>
>
> I would certainly have made this mistake if I tried it. And knowing this
> information will not cause me to do it properly, it will simply make me
> question my code, and become very suspicious every time I ever use the
> operator (ie. I will never understand the proper precedence, I don't think
> it makes sense).
> I'm fairly amazed it's not the other way around... what's the logic behind
> this?

The logic is that the precedence in the language matches the
precedence of a written equation.