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From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Reply: priorities of = and == revisited
Message-ID: <1670010@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 29 Jan 88 13:55:05 GMT
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"nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM 00704a-Liber at AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville" says

> The =OP to OP= was a syntactic change, while changing the operator 
> precedences would be a SEMANTIC change.

Nope. It's syntactic. All precedences do is allow you to omit grouping marks
(parens). Grouping is just syntactic.

Changing the operator MEANINGS would be semantic ............................
Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"