() ignored in some expressions

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Apr10.061333.29693 at diku.dk> jensting at skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes:
>Ahemm. Am I stupid, or is the result of 1000*(1000 - 999) quite dependant
>on the parenthesis being done properly (assume 16 bit int's..)? ...

You're not stupid, just slightly careless. :-)  You didn't read the original
query carefully enough -- only associative and commutative operators were
covered by the old rule, and subtraction is neither.
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