Re: I have a doubt

james of tucson wrote:

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

Am I the only poster who abhors explicit parentheses in such simple
cases?

You may want to choose your fights more wisely.

He wasn't fighting: he was expressing an opinion.

There is nothing wrong with parens or braces,

In appropriate quantities.

Clutter is clutter. When the helpful-to-the-reader brackets
become troublesome, they are no longer helpful. (Opinions
about how much it takes to be clutter may reasonably vary.)

and there is nothing wrong with reliance on eval rules.

I should jolly well hope not: if one can't rely on the evaluation
rules, one is highly rotated.

What I'm saying is, YOU are right, and whoever you are arguing
with is ALSO right. What that means is you can't win, unless you are
literally the policy maker.

Or if you're not fighting.

If it's YOUR project and YOU make the
rules, then by all means, lay down the law.

--
Chris "Perikles triumphant" Dollin
Scoring, bah. If I want scoring I'll go play /Age of Steam/.

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