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Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Sunday, April 6, 2003, 22:09
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. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. --Albert Einstein

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