On 23/11/2007, Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's stop thinking in terms of implementation complexity (math > precedence won't add much, anyway) and start thinking in terms of how > to make computers easier, more natural, and less error-prone for > end-users (in this case, programmers using COLA).
Exactly, simple precedence rules (unary then binary then keyword messages, left associativity, NO exception) make it easier to think in terms of objects responding to messages :) In Smalltalk, + is just a message; sure, when you send it to a subclass of Number, it happens that you get the maths semantics, but that's a particular implementation in a specific class hierarchy. -- Damien Pollet _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
