From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 00:27:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12124 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12112 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 1069GW-000N2v-00; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:27:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Mikhail Teterin cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:55:21 EST." <199901290555.AAA28927@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:27:00 +0200 Message-ID: <88592.917598420@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:55:21 EST, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Everybody's goal is to keep/make code readable (accusations of "trying > to obfuscate" are silly). You, people, are just not agreeing what > "readable" means. Hoping to aid in the ending of this thread(s), Thank you very much. This is _exactly_ the point here. As far as I see it, there are a lot of people who are saying "I want to use parens to improve readability" when what they really mean is "I want to use parens to obviate the need to learn operator precedence." I can't imagine how unnecessary parens are going to improve "readability" for anyone who knows his/her operator precedence. What it does is allow folks who aren't sure about what they're doing to get around doing things properly. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message