On 3/04/21 3:51 pm, John wrote:
Can't argue that long equations are hard to read. The question is which is harder. A slew of parenthesis makes a mess that's difficult to detangle.
In my experience, RPN is always harder to read than infix. A slew of parens can be confusing, but a bunch of operators piled up at the end of an expression doesn't make it any better for me. I once had the need to write substantial amounts of Postscript by hand (it was for Sun's NeWS window server), and I found it so tedious and hard to get right that I devised an infix language and wrote a compiler to translate it into Postscript. The project went much more smoothly after that! -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AJIZB63T2X64FKYK6PG3BRL7HOQ5GG4N/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
