Re: Ideas about colon operator syntax (and a patch in the work)

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-05-01 12:35 GMT+02:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:

> Do we really wan't to write polynoms as (2 * x) + (4 * (x ^ 2)) + (3 *
> (x^3)) instead of 2 * x  +  4 * x^2 + 3 * x^3 ?
> I don't and as long as you don't want that either, you will have to live
> with the fact that you will have to learn the operator order of a
> programming language.

A strawman argument. Nobody suggested scrapping operator order.

> The idea is from Ada.

That explains a lot. In fact, it explains everything.