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From: aldona@pyr.gatech.EDU (STEPHEN D. STRADER)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Question about Ada expressions
Message-ID: <9307@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 89 10:56:06 GMT
References: <72799@linus.UUCP> <6699@hubcap.clemson.edu> <16192@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <8834@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: aldona@pyr.UUCP (STEPHEN D. STRADER)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <8834@spool.cs.wisc.edu> schmidt@green.cs.wisc.edu (Perry Schmidt) writes:
>In Ada, when building boolean expressions you must put ANDs and ORs (and
>OR ELSES, etc) in parents IF you use them in mixed combination.
>Ex.  (A and B or C) -- is not legal.  You must write it as...
>     (A and (B or C))
>So the question is -- WHY?

BECAUSE!

No, actually it is to remove ANY ambiguity as to how the expression
should be evaluated.  

Saright?

S