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Re: Operator precedence in Lojban mathematics: we need your help again
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Re: Operator precedence in Lojban mathematics: we need your help again
- From: And Rosta <cbmvax!uunet!ucl.ac.uk!ucleaar>
- In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 02 Apr 92 07:47:30 EST.) <23146.9204012149@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: And Rosta <cbmvax!uunet!ucl.ac.uk!ucleaar>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
Jacques:
> Therefore I suggest:
> 1. No precedence: keep grouping left to right.
> 2. Invent new or press into duty existing cmavo to
> implement RPN. RPN is quite human-friendly, consider:
>
> 3 and 4, add them, and 5, multiply them
What is RPN? Reverse Polish Notation?
It's a clever idea and it gets my vote (which should count for little,
since its yonks since I had the time to try to read or write any lojban.
(Until I read Jacques' message, Sta had been using
normal Polish notation & the mind of its creator boggling.)
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And