We’re in very nitpicky terminology weeds here (and I’m not the person you’re replying to), but my understanding is “commutative” is specifically about reordering operands of one binary op (4+3 == 3+4), while “associative” is about reordering a longer chain of the same operation (1+2+3 == 1+3+2).
Edit: Wikipedia actually says associativity is definitionally about changing parens[0]. Mostly amounts to the same thing for standard arithmetic operators, but it’s an interesting distinction.
Edit: Wikipedia actually says associativity is definitionally about changing parens[0]. Mostly amounts to the same thing for standard arithmetic operators, but it’s an interesting distinction.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_property