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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: constant string array
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:37:58 GMT
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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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