On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:56:06 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>Also, it's often better to nest than to make compound conditions.
>
Do you mean not expanding the Distributive Law? E.g. you prefer:
A and ( B or C )
to:
A and B or A and C?
Do we need to talk about short-circuit evaluation?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Mills
>> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2020 12:54 PM
>>
>> I long ago decided never to bother looking up or thinking about operator
>> precedence. If I am not immediately certain straight out of the box then I
>> use
>> parentheses.
>>
Me, too. And I've been thwarted by a BASIC interpreter (Data General)
and a Pascal compiler (Lightspeed) which incrementally compiled to internal
pseudo-code (RPN?) and decompiled for listing (Infix) with bare minimum
parentheses. And frustrated my attempts to align decimal points vertically.
-- gil
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