Re: Software vendors not using Ada but C

[ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!epflnews!disuns2.epfl.c h!di.epfl.ch!Magnus.Kempe@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Magnus Kempe)]

In article <20afbsINN6or@news.u.washington.edu>, bketcham@stein2.u.washington.e
du (Benjamin Ketcham) writes:
:
: Of course, logical use of whitespace can be very helpful, so I might
: write
: 
:     result = condition5&&condition6 || condition7&&condition8 ;

Surely you mean

	result = cond5 && cond6||cond7 && cond8 ;    :-?


Relying on whitespace to convey operator precedence is double-plus
ungood.  You cannot hope that every programmer or mathematician and
non-programmer or non-mathematician (wait, can you parse it? should
that rather be and and and or or or or?  or comma comma or?) in the
world should assign universal precedence levels to and and or
(parenthesis omitted, since precedence levels are self-evident :-).

Thou shalt use parenthesis.
-- 
Magnus Kempe			"Reason ... is the glory of our nature."
Magnus.Kempe @ di.epfl.ch				-- Elihu Palmer