From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-11-06T02:30:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-6468 ] the sign of a number is omitted when squaring it. -2**2 vs (-2)**2

Hi,

In message "Re: [ ruby-Bugs-6468 ] the sign of a number is omitted when squaring it. -2**2 vs (-2)**2"
    on Sun, 5 Nov 2006 04:23:30 +0900, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

|Any yet
|
|irb(main):002:0> -2.abs
|=> 2
|
|So there are cases where the operation of "concatenating characters to 
|form a literal" has higher priority than an operation on objects.

People with mathematical background demands precedence for ** being
higher than that of unary minus.  That's the reason.

							matz.