Operator precedence and #777

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20100921152439.GA23587 at sunrider>, Kristian Lyngstol writes:

>Basic problem:
>
>   (!foo ~ "bar")
>
>no longer works in trunk. It used to mean the same thing as:

The change is unintentional, and I will attempt to fix it.

>Slink also pointed out that it might make sense to have a clearly defined
>operator precedence list.

Yes, I am working from sort of a plan in this respect, and yes
that should go into docs once finished and stable.

The overal outline is that anything boolean has the lowest precedence
which is why (!foo ~ "bar") should be interpreted as (!(foo ~ "bar"))
as it used to be in 2.1

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