Posted by Chung Leong on 05/28/06 21:36
Norman Peelman wrote:
> The bottom line is this... precedence can only 'guess' so much as to what
> you the programmer wants and it normally does a great job. But when you
> start mixing two different functions ('.' and '+') it has to make
> assumptions, and those assumptions are to work on what is immediately known
> and that is what is to the immediate left and right:
I'm sorry but you're missing the entire point of the discussion. The
point is that the ambiguity is illogical and should not exist. To use
your terminology, apples are apples, oranges are oranges. Putting them
all in one bin and then guess at what you've got is stupid.
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