Re: String concatenation design

"Rob Thorpe" <robert.thorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1143552303.871560.68630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Although many languages have many operators
and levels of prescedence in practice programmers don't like them much.
C has ~15 levels of prescedence depending on how you count them, but
programmer generally only use 4 or 5 of them and rely on parenthesis
otherwise.

Generally, you want a programming language to surprise the programmer as little as possible, and in that case, it may be good idea to have precedence rules which mimic that of standard math. A novice programmer might, for example, copy a formula straight out of a physics book, and be very surprised when his program gives unexpected results due to "weird" precedence rules.

- Oliver

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