Tracy Harms wrote: > I ask because it came to mind as I read "Good Ideas, > Through the Looking Glass" by Niklaus Wirth. ...... > http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf
Surprisingly for this sort of article, APL got off with just a slap on the wrist (p. 13): [quote] A similar break with established convention was the postulation of operators being right-associative in the language APL in 1962. x+y+z now suddenly stood for x+(y+z), and x-y-z for x-y+z. What a treacherous pitfall! [/quote] John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
