> How is there less confusion in RPN than in infix notation ;-) You're > reminding me of old computer classes :p Take a calculator and press > Enter too many times!
no () and no operators priorities (which are not even implemented uniformly among programming languages... Here, let's have some fun: [23:52:13]@tiga:~/Films☻ $ irb irb(main):001:0> p 6/2*1+2 5 => 5 irb(main):002:0> [23:52:31]@tiga:~/Films☻ $ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 27 2010, 17:27:14) [GCC 4.5.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print 6/1*1+2 8 >>> ) So if I want the same result I need () which I end up using even when not strictly necessary, even more keystrokes :P _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
