Re: C++ excessive bracketts removal
On Oct 12, 8:11 pm, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> wrote:
On 2007-10-11 22:46:29 -1000, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> said:
That's the real reason, I suspect. Rather than remove brackets,
it would probably be more useful to insert them everywhere, so
the user could see how the compiler understands what he wrote.
Maybe. I've had to debug Java code compiled to C, with Lots of Infernal
Stupid Parentheses. It's not fun. (Both the compiler and the Java code
were under development at the time; otherwise I wouldn't have been
looking at the generated C code). The parentheses are mostly
distractions. Of course, that's whole programs, not isolated
expressions.
It depends on context, and too many parentheses can also cause
problems. I think that a program to fully parenthesize isolated
expressions could be useful: any time you're not sure,
copy/paste the expression into it, and find out. That doesn't
mean that I think every expression in the source code should be
completely parenthesized
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