discuss postfix notation second, since it's less important

Author: SethTisue

style/method-invocation.md

@@ -54,30 +54,6 @@ readability and will make it much easier to understand at a glance the
 most basic operation of any given method. Resist the urge to omit
 parentheses simply to save two characters!
 
-## Postfix Notation
-
-Scala allows methods that take no arguments to be invoked using postfix notation:
-
-    // recommended
-    names.toList
-
-    // discourage
-    names toList
-
-This style is unsafe, and should not be used.  Since semicolons are
-optional, the compiler will attempt to treat it as an infix method
-if it can, potentially taking a term from the next line.
-
-    names toList
-    val answer = 42        // will not compile!
-
-This may result in unexpected compile errors at best, and happily
-compiled faulty code at worst.  Although the syntax is used by some
-DSLs, it should be considered deprecated, and avoided.
-
-Since Scala 2.10, using postfix operator notation will result in a
-compiler warning.
-
 ## Infix notation
 
 Scala has a special punctuation-free syntax for invoking methods that
@@ -116,3 +92,27 @@ Such methods are fairly rare, however, and should normally be avoided
 during API design.  For example, the use of the `/:` and `:\` methods
 should be avoided in preference to their better-known names,
 `foldLeft` and `foldRight`.
+
+## Postfix Notation
+
+Scala allows methods that take no arguments to be invoked using postfix notation:
+
+    // recommended
+    names.toList
+
+    // discourage
+    names toList
+
+This style is unsafe, and should not be used.  Since semicolons are
+optional, the compiler will attempt to treat it as an infix method
+if it can, potentially taking a term from the next line.
+
+    names toList
+    val answer = 42        // will not compile!
+
+This may result in unexpected compile errors at best, and happily
+compiled faulty code at worst.  Although the syntax is used by some
+DSLs, it should be considered deprecated, and avoided.
+
+Since Scala 2.10, using postfix operator notation will result in a
+compiler warning.