Operator precedence problem

ICT Ezy ictezy at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 23:23:59 EDT 2016


On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 10:49:49 PM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 02:53, ICT Ezy wrote:
> > >>> 2 ** 3 ** 2 
> > Answer is 512
> > Why not 64?
> > Order is right-left or left-right?
> 
> You're mixing up order of evaluation with operator associativity. The **
> operator is right-to-left associative, this means x ** y ** z == x ** (y
> ** z). Evaluation is left to right, where it matters [i.e. if one or
> more of the elements here were an expression with side effects]: first x
> is evaluated, then tmp=y**z, then x**tmp. These are two entirely
> different concepts.

Thank you very much for your explanation



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