From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Thu Apr 2 02:31:07 1992 Return-Path: Date: Thu Apr 2 02:31:07 1992 Message-Id: <9204012323.AA28470@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Subject: Re: Operator precedence in Lojban mathematics: we need your help again To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 02 Apr 92 07:47:30 EST.) <23146.9204012149@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> Status: RO Jacques: > Therefore I suggest: > 1. No precedence: keep grouping left to right. > 2. Invent new or press into duty existing cmavo to > implement RPN. RPN is quite human-friendly, consider: > > 3 and 4, add them, and 5, multiply them What is RPN? Reverse Polish Notation? It's a clever idea and it gets my vote (which should count for little, since its yonks since I had the time to try to read or write any lojban. (Until I read Jacques' message, Sta had been using normal Polish notation & the mind of its creator boggling.) --- And