On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:18:11 AM UTC-4, David Gleich wrote:
>
> Can anyone give me a quick explanation for why these statements seem to
> parse differently?
>
> julia> 1782.^12. + 1841.^12.
>
.^ and .+ are (elementwise/broadcasting) operators in Julia, and there is a
parsing ambiguity here because it is not clear whether the . goes with the
operator or the number.
See also the discussion at
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/15731
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11529
for possible ways that this might be made less surprising in the future.
