On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Hans Bezemer wrote: > > I've been on a crusade against redundant parentheses for a long time. > > They often make it hard to read other people's work and obscure the > > programmer's intentions. > On the contrary: this kind of "beautification" makes it harder to read a > program without a C manual beside you
Knowing the precedence rules wouldn't require a manual if people would do it right most of the time. The problem is they don't, so you keep thinking "wait, was this required or not? I remember I put parentheses on it last time, but was that just to be sure or did I really need them?" > It also protects you from accidental errors, since it's crystal clear what > you > mean. Even if the C standard would change, it would not affect my code. Actually, Werner wrote quite a bit about how the parenthesis can hide errors (or worse, malicious code). > It is also a sign that the programmer has no intention to use my ignorance in > order to install a backdoor. So this seems a direct contradiction. ;-) The code he quoted actually was an attempt at doing just that, and it only worked because of the parentheses. Of course the real problem is that C allows assignments as part of an expression. > I have no Facebook account. Consequently, I have no friends and I don't like > anything. Deal with it. Hahaha, good one! Thanks, Bas
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