Waldemar, > This makes me wonder: Who is the official voice in this project? Ian? > Alan? You all together (after you've agreed on something)?
What is the "official voice"? > > The precedence rule in the newer (but not so new) Etoys for OLPC > > follows the one you seem to like. (* / // \\ are stronger than + and > > -, and min: and max: are weaker than + and -.) I think this is a good > > idea for that audience. > > Great. I guess this means that your Etoys variant will have similar rules? :) You probably have figured out by now that you are not going to get any simple answers from some people... On the other hand, CASIO and SHARP (and name any manifacturers except HP) calculators are used by billions of people, and they don't follow the math precedence rules. It means that the right precedence in a language also depends on the way you input an expression, for example. You could imagine a system in which you first enter an example expression with concrete number in the calculator manner and then substitute the numbers with variables. In such a language, you would use left-to-right precedences. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
