C operator precedence mnemonics

Valentino Herrera herrera at tegra.COM
Sat Jul 7 03:54:31 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jul4.164402.2072 at craycos.com> pmk at craycos.com (Peter Klausler) writes:
>> In a lot of cases, C operator precedence sucks.  (I can quote K&R saying the
>> same thing -- different wording, of course.  Lets not argue about this point.)
>> How does one deal with it?
>
>C precedence:
>	postfix, prefix, multiplication, add, shift, inequality, equality,
>	bitwise AND, XOR, OR, logical AND, OR, ternary, assignment, comma
>It's easy to derive mnemonics to help you remember this. Here's some
>possibilities:
>
>	Please put mice and such in each bag, Alice; except, omit
>	lemmings and opossums - they aren't cute.

Perhaps people might add some instances. Even bombastic, aggrevating examples
of linguistic assignments are often times antagonistically complicated. Can
anyone help?



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