On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, ahmad khalifa wrote: > > > > > > if (!(type == STRONG_R > > > || type == STRONG_L > > > || type == WEAK_BN > > > || type == WEAK_EN > > > || type == WEAK_AN > > > || type == NEUTRAL_B > > > || type == NEUTRAL_S > > > || type == NEUTRAL_WS > > > || type == NEUTRAL_ON)) > > > abort (); > > > >Can you tell why you think it needs more parentheses? It basically > >says > > > > if (!(expression)) > > abort (); > >What's wrong with that, and why would an additional pair of enclosing > >parens fix that? > > are you sure expression is evaluated correctly ? thats what the parens > are for... 1 month ago i would have never thought that this would be a > problem, but after debugging minibidi line by line, i found out that > sometimes this happens, probably because ' || ' and ' == ' have the same > evaluation priority or something.
Apparently not in this case. And no, they don't have the same priority. The idiom is that something like this: (a == b || c == d && e == f || g == h) Works as you expect: ((a == b) || ((c == d) && (e == f)) || (g == h)) --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
