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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C and Floating Point
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Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 11:25:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 11:25:36 1987
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Keywords: C Fortran Floating Point Parenthases

>   2) *People* expect parenthases to be honored...

Competent C programmers, who understand the language they are coding in,
expect parentheses to be honored in the way the language is AND HAS ALWAYS
BEEN specified:  they dictate grouping but do not force evaluation order.
This is NOT an invention of X3J11, it is the way C has always been.  See
K&R, page 185, paragraph 2.
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