On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:18:15 -0500, Mark Wagner wrote:

> This is what I like about postfix notation: 2 2 * 2 / 2 * is
> unambiguously 4.

Have fun convincing anyone to use that... ;-)

Really, it seems like a tree would be a better representation than any
linear string:

      4
      =
      *
    /   2
  *   2
2   2

However, that makes it a bit difficult to write and takes up a lot of
room, and doesn't really work well anyway with plain text, maybe we can
use some kind of notation to let it all fit on a line and be easy to
type...I know, lets use () marks to enclose each branch: (((2*2)/2)*2)

Typing all those () is a pain though, maybe make some simple rules for
which operations to do first, people can still use () to force a different
order or clarify the meaning when needed. ;-)


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