On Thu, December 13, 2007 06:21, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > Hi, > > On Dec 12, 2007 8:00 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is good to know there are a handful! If we move even higher >> description, such places should be rarer, I think. > > Could you and Ian please clarify the official position on this topic > (you two had contradicting opinions in your emails)? > > Do you plan for Coke to have math precedence? I guess no. It doesn't > matter to me as long as the Etoys-like system is planned to become a > fully practical programming system that could compete with Smalltalk, > for example, and at the same time focuses on ease of use. > > Etoys already has very strange precedence rules (right-to-left). Do > you plan for the Etoys-like system to have math precedence? > > Do your goals for ease of use align with what the Natural Programming > guys are doing? >
Right to left precedence is very easy to get used to. It makes for a natural left to right reading of expressions. At least this is natural for those who are used to reading human languages left to right. # Steve _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
