From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-07-01T04:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Order of precedence

Dark Ambient wrote:
> Just checking
> 
> if I have
> 
> a = a - b*c
> 
> b*c gets calculated first then that result is subtracted from a ?
> In other words, parantheses, in Ruby, is not necessary to make that
> calculation ?

Ruby uses pretty much the same precedence rules as C. Se p. 221 in the
PickAxe 1st Ed., for example.

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