why bother with operator precedence

[Tong Wu]

In article <12845 at csli.Stanford.EDU> poser at csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
>Insisting that students use minimal parenthesization will help them
>......
>
>So, why bother with precedence?

An excellent point!  Using minimal parenthesization to achieve maximal use
of precedence rules is like not declearing variables, in Fortran, in order
to use the default variable types.

TW