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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: parenthesized expressions (was: learning C)
Message-ID: <11425@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Oct 89 18:00:40 GMT
References: <2523@munnari.oz.au> <14124@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <14124@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
-Most of those languages also have _other_ means of forcing evaluation
-order in useful contexts.  For example, all of the above mentioned 
-languages allow the user to prohibit optimization of expressions
-involving associative operators - using parenthesis.

And so does C now (although not in precisely those terms).