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- Subject: Re: Operator precedence and unary minus
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 00:56:30 +0200
2018-05-21 23:48 GMT+02:00 Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com>:
>
>
>> On May 21, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2018-05-21 22:47 GMT+02:00 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> That's why in Lua we have an unpleasant surprise:
>>> - a%m - b%n ~= - b%n - a%m
>>> It's looks very weird.
>>> That should be an equality as in all other programming languages.
>>
>> All? Let's try APL.
>>
>> a←10 ⋄ b←20 ⋄ m←3 ⋄ n←4
>> -a|m-b|n
>> ¯9
>> -b|n-a|m
>> ¯1
>>
>
> All SANE languages? :)
APL is the only sane language :-) No precedence. Very little syntax,
