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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C and Floating Point
Message-ID: <760@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 03:12:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.760
Posted: Wed May  6 03:12:30 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 14-May-87 01:32:44 EDT
References: <15958@sun.uucp> <7918@utzoo.UUCP> <1307@ames.UUCP>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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Keywords: C Parentheses

In article <1307@ames.UUCP>, tweten@orville (Dave Tweten) writes:
> In article <7918@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Some languages do interpret parentheses as an expression of the
>> programmer's wish to force order of evaluation.  Some do not.

> This inspires what to me is an interesting question.  Which common
> high level computer languages, other than C, have parentheses but
> don't use them "to force order of evaluation"?

Lisp.
sh/csh.
TeX (though it uses {} rather than ()).
APL

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