why bother with operator precedence
Emuleomo
emuleomo at paul.rutgers.edu
Thu Mar 29 02:35:09 AEST 1990
This is why people say that C code is *hard* to read!
Why say
a = b >> 4 + 5;
when you can say
a = b >> (4 + 5);
Even DMR may have to dive into his manual once in a while if he sees the
former expression, but a C neophyte fully understands what the latter does!
Well I guess the former is why we have masochists in society!
--Emuleomo O.O. (emuleomo at yes.rutgers.edu)
--
*Nothing* is hard. If it looks hard, you are looking at it the hard way!
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