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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: parens honored
Message-ID: <7096@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Jan 88 13:59:15 GMT
References: <7022@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7564@elsie.UUCP> <7053@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1841@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1841@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>... a lot of people do want parens to be honored, but they're mostly
>Fortran programmers!

They're mostly NUMERICAL programmers.  Many of them have said that they
would have used C except for its perceived deficiencies for such work,
gratuitous expression reordering being chief among them.