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Article #620903Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:25
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:25
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On 2018-02-25, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:01:08 -0500
> Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> The major failing of C as a high level language is that logical
>>> and relational AND and OR operators are at the same precedence whereas
>>> logical should be higher thus ridding the necessity of extra brackets.
>>
>> Hmm, code that relies on precedence rather than parens is not good code.
>> IMO.
>
> So use LISP :)
>
> You can go too far though, I think it's fair to assume BODMAS in
> any language with infix notation, and to assume that assignment comes way
> down the list in languages where an assignment is also an expression.
BODMAS? Haven't heard that one. Explain, please.
In my C code I use a few more parentheses than are strictly necesary, e.g.
if((i > 0) && (i < 10))
but at least there's no ambiguity, and I think it's more readable.
The other argument for extra parentheses is that it can save some pain
if you port the code to another language with different precedence rules.
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