semantics of ** (unexpected/inconsistent?)

[Chris Rebert]

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Esmail wrote:
>>
>>> Wow .. never heard of Concatenative_languages languages before or the
>>> distinction you make. Your distinction explains the behavior, but I
>>> find it somewhat counter-intuitive.
>>
>> You shouldn't find it any more surprising than the fact that
>>
>>  a = 2 + 3
>>  print a * 5
>>
>> gives a different result from
>>
>>  print 2 + 3 * 5

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:41 AM, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
> one point of confusion could be the use of ** instead of superscript.
> it might make things a little bit more counterintuitive-looking than
> with superscripts, since the issue with

Well, since source code is almost universally just plain ASCII and not
in some file format with typesetting, superscripts aren't going to
happen any time soon.
(Also, avoid top-posting in the future.)

Cheers,
Chris
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