On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Manu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 January 2012 14:48, bearophile <[email protected]> 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.
