Operator precedence.

[Joe keane]

You've been posting very specific information about something that
doesn't actually exist -- when there are *plenty* of examples of
real-world languages with well defined operator precedence rules that
would have made perfectly good examples.

The conversation was about some hypothetical language that is like C
but has less [or more] levels of precendence.

Bartc suggested six [or five] levels, and asked whether this would be easier. James Kuyper and Ben Bacarisse suggested that it would not, and that
arguably C has about the right number of levels.

 

[Keith Thompson]

You've been posting very specific information about something that
doesn't actually exist -- when there are *plenty* of examples of
real-world languages with well defined operator precedence rules that
would have made perfectly good examples.

The conversation was about some hypothetical language that is like C
but has less [or more] levels of precendence.

Bartc suggested six [or five] levels, and asked whether this would be
easier. James Kuyper and Ben Bacarisse suggested that it would not,
and that arguably C has about the right number of levels.

That's fine, but it took *way* too long to understand what you were
trying to say, because you introduced an arbitrary but very specific
collection of operators without explanation. In one case, you even
specifically mentioned C along with your odd list of operators. Look
back in this thread and you'll see several people asking you for
clarification.