alt Hacker NewsOr, if the programming language uses infix binary operators:
Not if the programming language has evaluation order from left to right, e.g.
2+3*4
is evaluated as
(2+3)*4.
For example J uses this kind of evaluation.
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lmz • last Sunday at 2:39 AM
Smalltalk also.
J is APL-inspired, and APL is right-associative, so that would surprise me. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/preliminaries.htm#_Toc1... agrees with that, saying
“All J verbs (functions and operators) have the same priority and associate right-to-left. For example, a b + c is equivalent to a * (b + c), not (a * b) + c.”*
Your point about not needing operator precedence still stands, though.