On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> 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 > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:41 AM, inhahe <inh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 > > Well, since source code is almost universally just plain ASCII and not > in some file format with typesetting, superscripts aren't going to > happen any time soon. > (Also, avoid top-posting in the future.) >
i wasn't suggesting it as a feature for python, just pointing out why it might seem counterintuitive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
