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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: constant string array
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:37:58 GMT
Date: 2000-12-13T00:37:58+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <916gd6$dvc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A36AF4B.6B81DF78@acm.org

In article <3A36AFB.6B81DF78@acm.org>,
  Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> I like parentheses whenever they make things clearer.
> Sometimes this includes unnecessary parentheses, as in
>
> -(2 ** 31)

It is of course a consensus point that the use of parens
in cases like this is not only allowable, but often
preferable. But as Jeff notes, this has nothing whatever
to do with junk parens that have no effect whatsoever under
any circumstances.


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2000-12-11 19:34     ` constant string array Robert Dewar
2000-12-11 21:41 ` Pascal Obry
2000-12-12  2:54   ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  2:56   ` Robert Dewar
     [not found] ` <3A3445A8.8FC404D5@acm.org>
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2000-12-11 19:39       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  2:31     ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-12  2:53       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  4:39         ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-12  4:56     ` Jeff Carter
2000-12-12 20:57       ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-12 23:05         ` Jeff Carter
2000-12-13  0:37           ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-12-13  0:36         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  0:39         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  2:02           ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-13  2:33             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  2:55               ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-13  4:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 13:38                   ` Bad coding standards Marc A. Criley
2000-12-13 13:54                     ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 20:55                     ` David Emery
2000-12-14 13:07                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-14 14:21                         ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-15  0:08                           ` Wayne Magor
2000-12-15  1:40                             ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-15  3:18                         ` DuckE
2000-12-15  4:45                           ` Ed Falis
2000-12-15 15:44                           ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-15 16:34                             ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-16  6:08                               ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-16  1:16                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-16  1:19                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-17  5:49                               ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-17  8:24                                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15 15:56                       ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-12-15 20:43                         ` Wayne Lydecker
2000-12-16  4:31                           ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-16 11:36                           ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15 21:36                         ` tmoran
2000-12-15 18:41 ` constant string array Freelancer
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