Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70354 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 43835 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2013 15:27:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Nov 2013 15:27:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=me@chrislondon.co; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=me@chrislondon.co; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain chrislondon.co does not designate 74.125.82.44 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: me@chrislondon.co X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.44 mail-wg0-f44.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.44] ([74.125.82.44:56363] helo=mail-wg0-f44.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9B/85-10115-6CA12925 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:27:05 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id a1so1034810wgh.23 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:26:59 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=huJdeizfM0jkwNojN/E25alX/ONDAnNpOJb/QMK9r50=; b=h/V2oyDNgi8A4TgYLu4QPM4K9Syva46ajR1wWKJbCZjHsQug4F2Oz/y9xKa3EOYCES 58RIcy5QJzqwAFR89TWkTfvzCF22t2NznUwkasWvKAo7RYRa/yuIncEiFbJ3kQPP2rTv RZ5FicP6vOYm3HQ4V1p5snbzqN/TF2YgYxakpb03mQRPcZDfxHQA9hEfcxzg6HA9+t98 9WWyoh9DycVo/uALIZWc4Mb0LvsYP/fOgC+ESsJ3mc4MEQ+mWhSaU+ew9lKZVPm4gOKF aZOMzy6hOXTUOUYG6ISjQ6JwhvF7GtHhEYW295UpPULk347rDTmqEhoEKL2W4dVP2XEP MjRQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk5JVWmiILTnhmY6DCXcDACGyWufNI5QBemS8rkW2rNSgfnXu0DHU75DCLMKmhwlfx53Q2O MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.160.240 with SMTP id xn16mr10090390wib.62.1385306819314; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.217.153.135 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:26:59 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [66.219.207.210] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:26:59 -0700 Message-ID: To: Tjerk Meesters Cc: PHP Internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b6251b0ded79404ebede00e Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: rfc: pow-operator From: me@chrislondon.co (Chris London) --047d7b6251b0ded79404ebede00e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > > 2. The available votes for the associativity is reduced to either right or > non associative; I'd rather see it done right (pun intended) or done in a > way whereby the developer must put parentheses to disambiguate. > I completely agree. Here's another resource that explains a little more why the exponent comes before the negation: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55709.html --047d7b6251b0ded79404ebede00e--