Not someone who knows J or APL. Many of us who do have noticed how clumsy and non-extensible traditonal order-of-operations mathematics is.
On 3/21/06, p j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would you expect the programmer intended in the > following? > 4*3 + 2*3 -1 > > Almost everyone would say: 12 + 6 - 1 -- Devon McCormick ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
