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

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