From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2007-04-29T10:45:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Infix to Postfix Method

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:34:33AM +0900, Peter Marsh wrote:
>   precedence = {nil=>0,40=>0,42 =>2, 43=>1, 45=>1,47=>2}

In general it's better not to explicitly specify ASCII values, so I'd
write instead:

    precedence = {nil=>0, ?(=>0, ?*=>2, ?+=>1, ?-=>1, ?/=>2}

Note though that on newer versions of ruby, ?x will give you a string
containing "x" rather than the ascii value of x.  So to be more
compatible, instead of writing:

>   expression.each_byte do |asc|

you'll want to write:

    expression.each_byte do |c|
      c = c.chr if ?x == "x"

and use c wherever you were using asc before.

(I feel like there should be a better way to do this, but I haven't
found one.  Pity there's no String#each_char).

Paul