Re: New GNULIB glob module?
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sun, 15 May 2005 15:02:28 -0700
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Derek Price <[email protected]> writes: > Are you sure? You asked me to restore similar parens around bit-ands > back at several other locations despite other work that changed the > lines, in an earlier email. Not that I disagree now. I actually prefer > the version without the unnecessary parens around the bit-and. I just > think we should be consistent. It's a minor point, but expressions like (a & b && c) are assumed to be confusing, as they depend on obscure precedence rules, whereas expressions like (a & b ? c : d) are not confusing in the same way: there's only one way to parse them, even if you have forgotten the precedence.