in reply to Burned by precedence rules
Like toolic, I work on the principle of "when in doubt, parenthesize." I've also dealt with optimizing compilers that would handle something like
do i = 1, 10 do j = 1, 10 do k = 1, 10 l = i + j + k enddo enddo enddo
differently from
do i = 1, 10 do j = 1, 10 do k = 1, 10 l = (i + j) + k enddo enddo enddo
in that it would not recognize i + j as constant in the innermost loop in the first fragment, but would in the second. There are also cases where I've needed to force a specific order of operations to preclude under or overflow.
I also won't rule out the possibility that, unlike the compiler, I can get confused about logical tests that have multiple and's, or's, and not's; using (perhaps superfluous) parentheses will reduce my confusion.
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