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Faun Locke (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In APL, there is no precedence hierarchy within a given name class - the role which a semantic object fulfills - for example, Arrays, Functions, and Operators have consistent binding strength and scope. So, the APL functions <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>÷, ×, *, +</syntaxhighlight> are evaluated in a precisely identical fashion. Unlike other languages, which choose to follow the traditional mathematical rules of precedence. However, there is dispar...") |
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Then functions are applied to their arguments. Note that functions have ''long right scope'' and ''short left scope'', that is, everything to the right of a function is taken as a right argument, and as a left argument the first array to its left. So, functions are said to evaluate right to left. | Then functions are applied to their arguments. Note that functions have ''long right scope'' and ''short left scope'', that is, everything to the right of a function is taken as a right argument, and as a left argument the first array to its left. So, functions are said to evaluate right to left. | ||
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