Richard Maine wrote:
>
> Michael Milgram writes:
>
> > The "**" symbol is the only case I am aware of in which operators can appear
> > side-by-side.
>
> I'll not comment at all on the rest of this thread. But on the above
> point only, note that there are others. There is certainly the case
> of "//". And although although the result is a delimitter instead of
^^ ^^
We even have adjacent "operators" in English!!!
It's true that there are several, but interchanging "**" and "*" is
almost always legal, whereas interchanging "==" and "=", for example,
is almost always illegal.
Dick Hendrickson
> an operator, we also have "(/" and "/)". Not that I'm particularly
> fond of the latter two. There's an ongoing thread about them also,
> (either here or on comp.lang.fortran - I have trouble recalling which
> threads are in which place) but I'll stay out of it.
>
> --
> Richard Maine
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