Re: Shortcut logicals

["Jan Vorbrüggen" <jvorbrueggen-not@mediasec.de>]

> In maths, folks usually presume that "and" has higher
> precedence than "or".  I'm pretty happy with the Ada rule, though.  In
> general, I don't think programming languages should use precedence and
> associativity rules beyond the ones folks know by age 9.  Many people
> disagree with that, though -- they think "extra" parens cause too much
> clutter, and make the code hard to read.

I'm with you all the way. Anything to make the text clear by itself,
without reliance on external information (in this case, operator precedence
rules). It also forces the programmer to think about what he is writing,
and not go by the seats of his pants, as it were.

	Jan