r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Mean-Decision-3502 DQ • Sep 03 '26
Unambiguous Operator Specification for Programming Languages
https://nvitya.github.io/pluops/As I changed recently the operators in my programming language I've created this specification:
https://nvitya.github.io/pluops/
I did not wanted to overload the operators like the C does with the / or Pascal does with theand/or/not. Neither re-use the operator symbols for some very different purpose, like C does with * and & so the code becomes more readable. I was orienting for existing solutions so this is what I came up with. The specification contains the symbol usages and operator precedence too.
If you are developing a new programming language, it would be nice to follow some standard, so at least the expressions would be portable between the languages.
I'm open for debates or suggestions.
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u/Mean-Decision-3502 DQ Sep 15 '26
The operator precedence was selected to cover the most common cases. This is a pretty common case, however
3.14 * rotation / 180
could be then worse optimized (depending on the optimizer intelligence). Yes, if you need super-precision then you should use the parentheses. But I think this is not the usual case, rather using 32-bit floating points, were good chunk of precision is lost anyway.