From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2011-10-12T02:53:28+09:00
Subject: Re: why does `a + f b` not parse?

2011/10/11 Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@gmail.com>:
> Don't top post, please.

I was writing from my mobile, it was added automatically (I just don't
have an oversized signature to brag about it). No, I do not have the
option to disable it. Don't waste everybody's time arguing about
top-posting when we're both clearly posting on this list/forum
regularly and I clearly do not top post if I can.


> 2011/10/11 Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex@gmail.com>:
>> Yes, I think we all know that; the question is, why does 2 + sqrt(5)
>> parse, but 2 + sqrt 5 does not? I've been wondering this myself - is
>> that syntax somehow ambiguous?
>
> So, which one shall it be?
>
>  2.+.sqrt(5)
>  2.+(sqrt(5))
>  2.+.sqrt.5
>  2.+(sqrt.5)
>  2.+(sqrt(5))

All but one of these (which you actually repeated twice) are invalid
syntax. I think the parser isn't quite *that* stupid, as it clearly
understands everything up to "5" (as we can see from the error
message), and only then barfs at what a human can understand as an
unparentesized argument to method call.

Please, try to make more sense when you're being condescending.

-- Matma Rex