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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up
Message-ID: <9413@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 20:27:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 20:27:20 1985
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Summary: another lose...

In article <4787@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>I should never be restricted to expressions like
>
>2 * 3 + 4
>
>in my programming language if I have a need to multiply the quantity 3 +
>4 by 2, I should be (and am able) to do this by saying
>
>2 * (3 + 4)
>

There are ways of getting around this. Make your notation unambigous.
Ever hear of RPN? You can say the same thing (most times with fewer
notainons) like this:

4 3 + 2 *

Can you say "anology: domains <--> RPN" ??

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