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[bplus]

See I miss having a separate sign for the - sign for subtraction operation different from the - sign to show the number value is below 0.

This was solved with Oh Interpreter with s[A,B] for subtraction, which isn't communitive either, and any -sign directly left of number makes it < 0.

Is - for Subtraction operation OR is - for value < 0?? too ambiguous and nightmare to code for Evaluators.

@Colonel_Panic take notes!

[Aurel]

hello Ed...and others of course

Ed ..you killing me with this negative power_up-s
i tested it right now in my microA and ouhh...
it must be written like this to get same result but work
in my case i made power_up like a function with parens (why ..i don't know )

by the way Ed...is same result in your subSet Interpreter ...i cannot test it ?

[Aurel]

hi Ed...
i get it how to test it in your subset Interpreter
uhh...little bit crazy because i don't use console very much
but work well ...!!!

[johannhowitzer]

This is why I always ALWAYS use parentheses in everything, both in programming and in math on paper.  Never leave it up to order of operations confusion when you never have to.

[Colonel_Panic]

Hi everyone... I'm back for a few days on the internet.
whoever else here says:

"I use parentheses for stuff like this !"

they are in agreement with me.
I intend to next use this thing when I want to do "algebraic notation; calculated fields"
on my database. I *think* as long as I use parenthesis, I will be fine to
for instance calculate sales tax.

PS - I myself would "routinely" use (-2) to represent negative 2 to avoid MY OWN confusion, regardless of what the compiler thinks.
I mean, as my own programmer? I want to just GLANCE at a screen of code and see what I was doing.