From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-05-28T00:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: A different perspective on Ruby.

Method vs. non-method
    should be totally orthogonal to
postfix vs. prefix vs. infix.

It is too bad that the two decisions are coupled.

"Logan Capaldo" <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4521f668050526194449ccee9f@mail.gmail.com...
On 5/26/05, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:
[snip]
> Another reason is that the prefix style, sqrt(5), is somewhat closer to
> the typical mathematical notation.  I can't think of any unary
> mathematical operations that are naturally postfix, unless you count
> C++'s post-decrement and post-increment.

Just to get offtopic, factorial is one.