On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote:
: all unary operators, be they prefix or postfix, should be evaluated
: before any binary operator is.
And leaving the pool of voting mathematicians out of it for the moment,
how would you parse these:
sleep $then - $now
not $a eq $b
say $a ~ $b
abs $x**3
These all work only because unaries can be looser than binaries.
And Perl 5 programmers will all expect them to work, in addition to
-$a**2 returning a negative value. And we have to deal with unary
precedence anyway, or !%seen{$key}++ doesn't work right...
Larry
