Re: [office-formula] Let's make "^" left-associative, not right-associative

["Tomas Mecir" <mecirt@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/06, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> wrote:
> In nearly all spreadsheet applications, ^ is left-associative, including
> Excel, OpenOffice.org, Lotus 1-2-3v9.8, and Corel Quattro Pro.
> That means 2^3^2 is all those cases is 64, not 512.
> Gnumeric 1.4.3 is an exception, it's right-associative.  Don't know about KOffice.

Hmm, looks like KOffice has it right-associative, 2^3^2 is 512 here.
Changing to left-associative would be trivial, and also logical - it
is that way in maths, if I recall correctly.

That said, I have no problem with the change.

/ Tomas