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 would only apply to exponents, as
-5*4 and a = -5 a*4 return the same answer, and superscripts make it a little easier to associate the exponent value with the base more than with the - before it. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@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 > > -- > Greg > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
