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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: efficient C
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 23:09:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 23:09:58 1987
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> If there is an attempt to make C be more than a "RatFor for PDP-11 assembly
> language" (as I'm often wont to label it), then I feel it's important to
> give the programmer as much definition as possible.  This includes operator
> precedence and respecting of parenthesis...

To misquote Charles Lindsey:  "c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas C".

C already respects parentheses, by the way; the parentheses just don't mean
quite what a Fortran programmer thinks.
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