[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54698] Precedence of call/indexing operator over transpose operator

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #54698 (project octave):

Yes, my guess is that the claim on right-to-left associativity for the postfix
inc/dec operators is borrowed from the C++ precedence rules. But that
associativity really only matters when combining the inc/dec operators with
other unary operators of the same precedence level, like the C++ expressions
'*a++' or '!b--'. Since '++' and '--' can't be combined without using a binary
operator of a lower precedence, I don't think we need to claim that they
associate from right to left in Octave.

But the Octave postfix inc/dec operators do have higher precedence than the
exponent operator. The expression 'a^b++' is not the same as '(a^b)++', which
would be the result if they all had equal precedence and left to right
associativity.

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