[Tutor] a puzzle about -3**2 vs (-3)**2

[D Wyatt]

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>
> He is quite within his rights to do that. It's his language after all.
> Some languages solve these problems by not permitting infix notation,
> so in Lisp for example
>
> (3 - 5)
>
> is illegal, you need to do
>
> (- 3 5)
>
> It looks odd to us but that's not the point, its how the language works.
> You learn to get used to it. Most languages have some idiosyncrasies like
> this.
>
> HTH
>
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Yes, I understand that the creator of the language can make it work
however he wants, but I was really hoping for a logical answer.  Just
because 'that's the way it is' kind of sucks and will make it more
difficult to remember.

-- 
Deb Wyatt in WA