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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> David Golden wrote:
>>Thus it seems clear that functions get evaluated first.
>
> Precedence does not (directly) affect order of evaluation. It affects
> how terms are grouped and combined after they have been evaluated.
Again, from perlop:
Operator precedence means some operators are evaluated before others.
For example, in "2 + 4 * 5", the multiplication has higher precedence
so "4 * 5" is evaluated first yielding "2 + 20 == 22" and not "6 * 5 ==
30".
I'm not trying to be a language pedant here, I'm just saying that *as
written* the documentation clearly states a particular order of
operations.
I'm agnostic as to whether that implies that code or documentation
needs to change as a result.
-- David
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