On 29/11/2007, Florin Mateoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's more than just about precedence as an arbitrary choice of order > of > execution. These binary operations have interesting mathematical properties > (associativity and commutativity), which are important concepts in maths going > beyond mere convention, and which Smalltalk breaks, and where Smalltalk's > simplicity (or regularity) of always having one privileged argument (the > receiver) is a wee bit too simple. > > Florin >
First thing, people should learn in smalltalk, i think, is that there is no operators at all. There is only the messages which passed to objects. And arguing about operator precedence rules in language which does not having operators at all is against the wisdom :) -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
