Hi, There seems to be a precedence bug with respect to unary minus. According to the documentation, unary minus should have precedence 500, on par with binary additive operators. In particular, it should have lower precedence than multiplication (400) and exponentiation (200). But this is not the case: [eclipse 4]: X = -3*2, X =.. L. X = -3 * 2 L = [*, -3, 2] Yes (0.00s cpu) [eclipse 5]: X = -2^9, X =.. L. X = -2 ^ 9 L = [^, -2, 9] Yes (0.00s cpu) And it's not just that the minus is just being incorporated into the integer, either: [eclipse 6]: X = - 2 ^ 9, X =.. L. X = -2 ^ 9 L = [^, -2, 9] Yes (0.00s cpu) [eclipse 7]: X = -(2)^9, X =.. L. X = (-(2)) ^ 9 L = [^, -(2), 9] Yes (0.00s cpu) Parentheses also seem to have an effect: [eclipse 4]: X = -Y^9, X =.. L. Y = Y X = -(Y ^ 9) L = [-, Y ^ 9] Yes (0.00s cpu) [eclipse 7]: X = -(Y)^9, X=..L. Y = Y X = (-(Y)) ^ 9 L = [^, -(Y), 9] Yes (0.00s cpu) Cheers, WarwickReceived on Thu Nov 15 14:47:33 2001
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