RE: Precedence of Infix Operator
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- Subject: [mg84088] RE: [mg84073] Precedence of Infix Operator
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:33:08 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks again Carl. I had a faint recollection there was such a file and actually spent about an hour looking through system .tr files - but not that one of course! However, I have a difficulty with this solution. If I were to include this as part of a package I think that users would be justifiably reluctant to copy my new UnicodeCharacters.tr into the Wolfram system files, even if I also supplied a saved version. And also I wouldn't want this as a permanent change. Mathematica supplies a number of infix operators that have no definitions. If they have no definitions, why should it be assumed that they would have a fixed precedence level? Specifying a precedence level is really a very fundamental part of implementing a new operator. Would it be that difficult to allow these operators to take a PrecedenceLevel option so that a user could set this value for his or her local needs? I believe this would be a very useful feature for Mathematica. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark From: Carl Woll [mailto:carlw at wolfram.com] David Park wrote: >I would like to use some less common infix operator, such as Colon or >VerticalBar, but give it a precedence on input greater than Times. Is there >a way to do this? > > > First, save a copy of UnicodeCharacters.tr. Then, open it and change the precedence of \[Colon] or \[VerticalBar] to something larger than that of \[Times] (520). Carl Woll Wolfram Research
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- From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>
- Precedence of Infix Operator