Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!hao!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: parens honored Keywords: ANSI C standard Message-ID: <1841@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 14 Jan 88 05:44:37 GMT References: <7022@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7564@elsie.UUCP> <7053@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 17 In article <7053@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >If you had had to wade >through all the demands for something called "honoring parentheses", it would >be clear to you that many people perceived the "old C" license to rearrange >a couple of special cases as a clear deficiency. I wonder if these requests came from experienced C users. The discussion of this topic in comp.lang.c always seemed to me to indicate that a lot of people do want parens to be honored, but they're mostly Fortran programmers! Well, what can we do about this? Write to ANSI demanding that Fortran88 convert all characters to ints in expressions, since not doing so is a clear deficiency? -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi