Re: Report on defect in M2 vs C (Was Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++)

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From: Viet-Trung Luu
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:57

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On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Neil Tungate wrote:

> My original idea still stands though - if you use parentheses
> correctly the equation will be evaluated as you intend, not as the
> compiler sees fit.

I know that most of us C/C++ programmers parenthesize defensively (due to 
a slightly broken procedence in C/C++)... but for other languages? 
Doesn't that defeat the whole idea of precedence? Why don't you just make 
precedence go left->right all the time (or may prefix or postfix)? It 
seems to me that precedence is supposed to *help* the programmer (in 
making code clear or whatever).

- Trung

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