[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

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[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

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[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

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[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

Stefan Krah added the comment: Agreed. I'm not sure though what the reason for this convention is: The flow in Grammar/Grammar (low to high) feels quite natural to me. That said, I'm +-0 on the change. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

Skip Montanaro added the comment: YACC might be an outlier as well. In any case, it's probably better to use other common programming languages as a gauge of what's typical. A quick check of C, C#, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Haskell shows they all list operator precedence in order from highest

[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

Stefan Krah added the comment: Yacc uses low to high. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubsc

[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

New submission from Joseph Schachner: We should not make people who need to read Python documentation do an extra transformation in their heads to correctly understand that in section 5.15 higher precedence is at the bottom of the table and lower precedence is at the top. Because the documenta