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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: help with a 'C' problemR
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Date: 26 Jun 91 04:49:29 GMT
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In article <4825@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>The `()' operator has unspecified precedence wrt the `->' operator,

Sez who?  a->b() is unambiguous, certainly according to ANSI.
a->(b()) is obviously meaningless in C (it could mean something in a language
with names as datatypes, such as LISP).