From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-10-17T02:38:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Parentheses

Charles Hixson wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday, October 16, 2003, 5:31:55 AM, Michael wrote:
>> ...
>> Do you use parens for 'puts'?
>>
>> Gavin
>>  
>>
> I frequently do.  It's nice to not need to, but usually I include
them.  
> OTOH, I've been writing code where parens around arguments were
required 
> for multi-decades.  But it makes it easier to figure out what the 
> interpreter will decide to do.  Actually, in most languages I will
use 
> parens as opposed to remembering the operator precedence hierarchy,
even 
> among simple arithmetic operations.  Because it's easier.


yeah, he said it better than I did. =)


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