Re: choice of character for relational division

On Mar 31, 6:04 pm, "Bruce C. Baker" <bcbake..._at_cox.net> wrote:
> "Marshall" <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> Why restrict yourself to one ASCII character? Why not something unambiguous
> like "reldiv", e.g.,
>
> C := A reldiv B

I don't like alphabetical strings for infix operators.

3 plus 2 times 5

Yuck.

Anyway, the number of characters or choice of characters doesn't determine the ambiguity.

3+2*5

Pretty clear what that means.

Single character symbols with no obvious algebraic operation associated:

  ! _at_ # $

I'll pick one of those. Okay, it's $.

Marshall Received on Sun Apr 01 2007 - 06:27:50 CEST