From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2003-10-16T02:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Parentheses

I prefer the parentheses.

Parens are an 'ambiguity reducing notation' - without the parens, you have
to ask (from time to time) - "What is the precedence of these operators in
this language".

Less ambiguity means clearer (human) code.

BobG


Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>* Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> [Oct, 15 2003 18:30]:
>> > When you omit parenthesis's doesn't that degrade readability of the code?
>> > I'm just curious
>> > what others have to say since I've seen a few folks say they like to omit
>> > them.
>>
>> I'm definately in favor of omitting: I parse like natural language, not
>> like a machine.
>yeah, i feel the same way often.
>	nikolai