> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> > =item perl6storm #0050
> >
> > Radical notion: consider removing precedence.
> > Wrong precedence makes people miserable.
>
> (Some people already suggest that Perl only has two precedence rules: (1)
> multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction, and (2)
> parenthesize everything else.)
>
> This would make Perl more like Lisp, I suppose. But it would make code
> less ambiguous, probaly at the cost of readability. Arguably, some (most?)
> of the precedence levels already work the way people expect them to (for
> example, == binds more tightly than || or &&), so fewer "cluttering"
> parentheses are needed to make things readable while still being correct.
What if we have these 2 rules or no rules AND we can set manualy the
precedence of all operators... as in PROLOG
(op(precedencePriority,associativity!,operator)).
This way older scripts will still work ...., and for the new scripts any can
decide ambiguousity or readability is more important!!
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