<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 January 2012 14:48, bearophile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bearophileHUGS@lycos.com">bearophileHUGS@lycos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is the third time I see people trip on power operator precedence:<br>
<a href="http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7268" target="_blank">http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7268</a><br>
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Some people expect this:<br>
(-10 ^^ 2)<br>
To be 100 instead of -100<br>
(Note: Python here uses the same operator precedences.)<br>
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Do you think it's worth (and possible) to help D programmers avoid this mistake in their code?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div>I'm fairly amazed it's not the other way around... what's the logic behind this?</div></div>