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by Joker_vD 124 days ago
But that's just associativity, not the order of evaluation? E.g. in C# expressions are evaluated strictly left to right, so if it had operator **, the order of evaluation would've been:

    tmp1 := x, tmp2 := y, tmp3 := z, tmp4 := tmp2 ** tmp3, yield tmp1 ** tmp4
And, eh, I am not really that convinced that

    a b * c d * x y * z t * p q * + + sqrt + +
is much less torturous than

    a * b + c * d + sqrt(x * y + z * t + p * q)