Re: Interview question: variable initialisation

Andy Sinclair wrote:

.... snip ...

IMO if the result of an operation is not immediately clear, you
should make it so. At a conference I attended a couple of years
ago, the speaker suggested that when using a C reference for
embedded systems, you should remove the operator precedence table
and set it on fire.

An excellent recommendation. In an attempt to reduce the fire
risk, I have always recommended never assuming any precedence
levels over multiplicative, additive, logical (, assignment). For
anything further, use parentheses.

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