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▲ bitwize 2 days ago

Not if it's s-expression-based! (laughs in smug lisp weenie)

▲aleph_minus_one 2 days ago | parent [-]

Or, if the programming language uses infix binary operators:

Not if the programming language has evaluation order from left to right, e.g.

2+3*4

is evaluated as

(2+3)*4.

For example J uses this kind of evaluation.

▲Someone 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

J is APL-inspired, and APL is right-associative, so that would surprise me. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/preliminaries.htm#_Toc1... agrees with that, saying

“All J verbs (functions and operators) have the same priority and associate right-to-left. For example, a b + c is equivalent to a * (b + c), not (a * b) + c.”*

Your point about not needing operator precedence still stands, though.

▲aleph_minus_one 2 days ago | parent [-]

> J is APL-inspired, and APL is right-associative, so that would surprise me.

You are indeed right (it has been quite a long time since I experimented with J):

> https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/preliminaries.htm (scroll down to "Order of Evaluation")

▲lmz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Smalltalk also.