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On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, David Golden wrote: > Precedence and associativity are all about how the parser would insert > parenthesis into an expression to disambiguate its meaning; it does not > for example change the commutative property of addition: (a + b) has to > be the same as (b + a), otherwise the operation is no longer an addition. Please ignore the part about the commutative property. While true, it is unrelated to the rest of the argument in that post. Sorry about that. > And in a() * b() + c() Perl will indeed perform the multiplication before > evaluating c(): [...] Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next