On 9 April 2013 14:37, Tom Cakalic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, (and John) > > You and I often see things in the same way. > > However the question/problem seems rather academic. > > I haven't needed to or tried to remember the order of operations much > past high school. > > At 52 years old, I see the implicit wisdom in using parentheses to > denote the proper order. Why leave the correct solution to chance when > one could explicitly specify it? Is it really too hard to do so? > Especially if one desires the correct result?
If that's your preference then you are free to do it that way, but if someone doesn't add brackets and you have to deal with their output then it's advantageous to know how to deal with the situation, when the rules are followed there is no ambiguity. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
