prefix syntax

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prefix syntax - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  prefix notation
  prefix syntax
  
     <language> (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings
     of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function
     precedes all its operands.  For example, what may normally be
     written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)".  A few languages (e.g.,
     lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix
     notation in combination with infix notation.
  
     Compare: postfix notation.
  
     (2001-02-14)