Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: () ignored in some expressions
Message-ID: <1990Apr14.235507.6418@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <48079@lanl.gov> <16414@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1990Apr10.181833.5453@utzoo.uucp> <819@s6.Morgan.COM> <820@s6.Morgan.COM>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 90 23:55:07 GMT

In article <820@s6.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
>Oh by the way - I forgot to say that compilers which don't get
>special permission from the command line, or source directives
>but then go on to ignore source parentheses are broken. In almost
>every language I know.

In old C, they were not broken, because the language definition explicitly
allowed it.  ANSI C has changed this.
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