Re: First use of Lisp at work!

From: Pascal Bourguignon (spam_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: 10 Nov 2004 12:11:40 +0100

pkhuong@gmail.com (Paul Khuong) writes:
> Mmm. Interesting. How do they deal with the precedence of unary and
> binary minus? (Aaah, unary minus having lower precedence than
> exponentiation. The source of so many middle school errors :)
> Actually, how does your parser deal with them? I only took a quick
> look at the infix2lisp part, so i'm not sure how it copes with that
> problem.

I don't know who the various infix languages cope with it, but I know
how I do: add parenthesis!

                        ((-n)^2)-1
or: -((n^2)-1) 

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

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