Think back to high school algebra. You know what I binomial is: it's a polynomial consisting of two terms. What's a term?
--- "Holloway, Thomas (EDS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's a case of reductio ad absurdum but if I have a long > arithmetic list like: > > 5+9+33+87-92+28+77*4-15-61+88+342 > > why in the world would I go into the middle to multiply 4*77 before > starting on the rest of the math? That makes no sense at all. > Multiplication trumps addition? Are we playing bridge here? And > yes, > having studied other languages I'm aware of their weird operator > precedence and, much like Jim, can't remember which does what. Left > to > right, what could be simpler? Just like reading. Can you imagine > reading a line of code where For and Do took precedence over If and > Write? I vote left-to-right (as if this were a decision that had to > be > made.) > > Thom H. > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Design quality doesn't ensure success, but design failure can ensure failure." --Kent Beck ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
