Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!tongwu
From: tongwu@ux.acs.umn.edu (Tong Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: why bother with operator precedence
Message-ID: <1379@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 90 00:51:18 GMT
References: <2205@osc.COM> <340018@hplvli.HP.COM> <19356@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <894@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <2677@sunquest.UUCP> <12845@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
Lines: 11

In article <12845@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
>Insisting that students use minimal parenthesization will help them
>......
>
>So, why bother with precedence?

An excellent point!  Using minimal parenthesization to achieve maximal use
of precedence rules is like not declearing variables, in Fortran, in order
to use the default variable types.

TW