Sargent Hoofbeat said:
Mortai Gravesend said:
I'm sorry, but since when was the concept of left-associativity something just for 6 year olds? Hint: It isn't. There's a reason to get consistent results.
You get consistent results by using Parentheses
Yes, and if someone doesn't put them it makes sense to define what is meant. Just because you apparently cannot comprehend that there are reasons to define it doesn't mean they don't exist. Rail against the idea of associativity all you like, it's there regardless of whether you want it to be or not.
It doesn't need to be the same. The notation itself isn't a universal law and that isn't a problem. It isn't expected to be as I pointed out.
When you practice maths, even thoughs of us who practice it and consider it to be a human construct will practice it under the assumption that it is law. This requires that you use correct setting out.
And what you fail to understand is that it isn't incorrect, there's a defined way to do it. Your whining that an alien that reads right to left might have a different rule is bullshit because that sort of argument applies to all our notations. Explain to the alien the concept of left-associative operators and what happens if they're the same priority and it can read it.
Also, I didn't come here to troll, but your ignorance/arrogance is simply so brilliant; and I'm on a mission to fix the internet. Let me put it this way then, if you were to say "I don't need to use parentheses because I have SWAG" I wouldn't bat an eye lid.
Ignorance? You're the one who is seemingly proud of not knowing something basic like the order of operations.
But hey, what you admitted won't vanish and will still be there for the mods to see.
