Should ^^ (opPow) be left- or right-associative?
Don
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Sat Dec 5 13:06:46 PST 2009
bearophile wrote:
> KennyTM~:
>> But the mathematical convention is a^b^c == a^(b^c).
>> Languages which the power operator is right-associative (3^3^3==7e12):
>> - Python, Haskell, Ruby, Perl, Mathematica, Bash.
>
> Doing things as in mathematical convention, Mathematica and Python sounds better.
> This was just the release V.0.1 of the built-in pow, it needs several improvements :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
Fortran too.
Here's a link from the TCL language, with a nice explanation of the
rationale for choosing right associativity.
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/274.html
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