> Take a look at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/notationFAQ for an
> argument why right-to-left execution is more useful than the reverse.
[snipped from above link]:
2) for a non-commutative function, such as minus, the result is much
more interesting evaluated right to left, e.g. -/1 2 3 4 5
becomes the alternating sum (((1 - 2) + 3) - 4) + 5; if evaluation
were as in conventional mathematics, this would be equivalent
to the less interesting 1 - (2 + 3 + 4 + 5).
how would you express the 'less interesting' case in J? in
left-to-right, i would express the interesting case as
1 2 3 4 5 /-`+
ta, jack
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