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.


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erik at erikhansen.org                 http://www.erikhansen.org

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