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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@banet.net>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/07
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In article <wccln626ily.fsf@world.std.com> , Robert A Duff 
<bobduff@world.std.com>  wrote:

> I would say: If it's not a precedence rule I learned in grade school,
> then it shouldn't be in a programming language (whether it was put there
> by the language designer or by some "clever" programmer).

Oh dear, I'll probably get horribly flamed for saying so, but I disagree
with the Ada(83) decision to require that "and" and "or" operators
appearing within the same statement also require parenthesis.

I think that, as in C, "and" should be given a higher precedence than
"or", analogous to how "*" is given a higher precedence than "+".

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