Exponentiation operator precedence
Bill Frantz
frantz at pwpconsult.com
Thu Aug 27 11:35:36 UTC 2015
On 8/27/15 at 11:51 PM, niloy.mondal84 at gmail.com (Niloy Mondal) wrote:
>x ** y ** z is easier to read/write than x.pow(y.pow(z))
As a language guru, you know which operation will be performed
first. As Joe programmer, I don't and I would need to write it
as x ** (y ** z).
With some operations, like +, the order doesn't matter and x + y
+ z is not confusing.
Cheers - Bill
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