Keyword message associativity.
rvclayton at acm.org
rvclayton at acm.org
Sun Jul 22 17:17:38 UTC 2018
The self 2017.1 handbook interprets the expression
5 min: 6 min: 7 Max: 8 Max: 9 min: 10 Max: 11
as
5 min: (6 min: 7 Max: 8 Max: (9 min: 10 Max: 11))
(pgs 17-18) for the message min:Max. This strikes me as wrong - where's the
Max: part for the message sent to 5? It seems to me that the interpretation
should be
5 min: (6 min: 7 Max: 8) Max: (9 min: 10 Max: 11)
or, to use indentation
5 min:
6 min:
7
Max:
8
Max:
9 min:
10
Max:
11
I understand that one likes to see a pleasing pile-up of parentheses at the end
of right-associative expressions, so maybe the example could be
5 min: 6 Max: 7 min: 8 Max: 9 min: 10 Max: 11 min: 12 Max: 13
which equivalent to (if I'm understanding things correctly)
5 min: 6 Max: (7 min: 8 Max: (9 min: 10 Max: (11 min: 12 Max: 13)))
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