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jules on June 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules

I don't remember all the rules, but I do remember that comparisons come before logical operations. It just doens't make sense to let a < b && c mean a < (b && c).

Perhaps an IDE/editor feature that removed unnecessary parenthesis could clean up code and you'd learn the precedence as you go.

electrum on June 30, 2010 [–]

IntelliJ IDEA has intentions to "add clarifying parentheses" and "remove unnecessary parentheses".

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/intentions.jsp

jules on July 1, 2010 | [–]

That's an interesting list. A lot of automatic code simplifications that I want :)

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