Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2003, 15:49 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27
> Dennis Paul Himes scripsit:
>
> > > Isn't reverse Polish "xy*" and hence SOV?
> >
> > No. Polish Notation would be "*xy" (VSO), so Reverse Polish
Notation
> > would be "yx*".
>
> In fact, RPN usually is not understood to reverse the arguments: xy-
means
> x - y, not y - x.
>
But when working with a stack, the computer will naturally take the last
value first, will it not?
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