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From: glass@vixvax.mgi.com (William H. Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: why bother with operator precedence
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Date: 27 Mar 90 06:23:48 GMT
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In article <12845@csli.Stanford.EDU>, poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
> Insisting that students use minimal parenthesization will help them
> to learn the precedence rules, but why bother?

   I recall that in McCracken's 1960ish book on Fortran programming, he
said "when in doubt parenthesize".  I feel that is still good advice.  When
trying to debug someone else's code, I'd much rather see some extra
parenthesis then find a bug caused by someone who thought that he knew the
operator precedence, but didn't.

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