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From: m5d@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C and Floating Point
Message-ID: <852@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 09:14:50 EST
Article-I.D.: bobkat.852
Posted: Thu Apr  9 09:14:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 03:27:11 EST
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Reply-To: m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (Man Insane))
Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX
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Keywords: C Fortran Floating Point Parenthases

In article <788@kodak.UUCP> grodberg@kodak.UUCP (Jeremy Grodberg) writes:
>	[ ... ]
>    2) *People* expect parenthases to be honored, and will be confused when
>       bugs occur because they are not.
>          Jeremy Grodberg

I don't expect parenthesis to be honored (in determination of execution order).
Does that mean I'm not a *People*?   Hmm, my friends always thought I was
odd.

Seriously, I cannot think of a SINGLE case in all my life when I suffered
from expression rearrangement.  The same goes for all the programmers 
in my office (4 others).  Do we just write different kinds of programs?
Note that I'm not doubting these parentheses horror stories; I just
think it's fascinating that I've never had one.  Oh well.

-- 
Mike McNally, mercifully employed at Digital Lynx ---
    Where Plano Road the Mighty Flood of Forest Lane doth meet,
    And Garland fair, whose perfumed air flows soft about my feet...
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