semantics of ** (unexpected/inconsistent?)

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Nov 30 03:46:42 EST 2009


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

-- 
Greg



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