On 12/03/2012 11.41, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>
> I am still having a trouble to remember what I have learned in school (as
> opposed to what I am applying nowadays), but all my braincells tells me
> that division and multiplication has the very same priority and should be
> handled from left to right.
>
> Therefore 6 / 2 * (1 + 2 ) should be
>
> 6
> -- * (1+2) =3D 9
> 2
I remember very well what lerned at school and this is the only right=20
interpretation.
And is simple and smart!
When writing by hand it's correct to omit the * because this is in The Rule=
..

With any programming language we must see The Rule on operator precedence b=
ut I=20
think that if it came out with something different it can be wrong (may exi=
sts a=20
contest in which...).



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