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From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:44:53 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote:
> rarely do things like parenthesizing a+(b*c). Even those who argue most
> strongly for explicitness generally agree that this would be silly, at
> least in "obvious" cases like the one above.

No, it is not silly.
It shows professionality, even when not in doubt.
There is no compelling reason to learn those many priority rules
for Ada expressions to achieve secondary bulk knowledge.

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