New Science Discovery: Perl Detracters Remain Idiots After A Decade!

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <ubo3r.20367$kv1.9848 at newsfe03.iad>, on 02/29/2012
   at 11:43 AM, Chiron <chiron613 at gmail.com> said:

>Sure, mathematically it *should* go a particular way,

No. Mathematically it should go the way that it is defined to go.
There is nothing in Mathematics that either requires or prohibits
infix notation in programming languages, or even in Mathematical
notation.

>it makes sense to keep things as clear as possible.

Often infix notation with well thought out precedence is the clearest
way to go. RPN and the like have their place, but often are difficult
for real people to read.

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