brackets
erik hansen
erikhans08 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 18 17:50:01 EST 2002
parentheses are listed as operators. operator
number 1 in fact. seems you can't go wrong with
number 1 operators.
--- Robert Brenstein <rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de>
wrote:
> It seems that parenthesis in MC are required
> more often than in HC.
> Particularly in more complex expressions where
> functions are used
> among &'s -- MC sometimes concates too much
> before evaluating the
> function. Admitedly, in all cases, the syntax
> is somewhat ambigous.
> It seems that HC scopes such expressions a bit
> differently than MC.
> The parenthesis seem also usually required in
> more complex
> expressions, like inlining a function as a
> parameter of another
> function. My rules of thumb became to use
> parenthesis anywhere I use
> an expression instead of a constant or
> variable.
=====
erik at erikhansen.org http://www.erikhansen.org
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