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From: mccaugh@sunb0.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: 3 May 90 05:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sunb0.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh    May  3 00:06:00 1990


 Where is '&' defined to be an arithmetic operator? Isn't it a bit-manipulation
 operator -- which thus has the same precedence as logical operators, such as
 '&&' -- and is thus of lower precedence than the relational operator '==',
 hence the necessity for parentheses.