Order of evaluation and parentheses

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Tue Mar 10 15:40:54 AEST 1987


Incidentally, while FORTRAN does require the compiler to obey
parentheses grouping in determining order of evaluation, it is
worthwhile to note that FORTRAN also does not have a preprocessor
that often introduces `extra' parentheses.  One does not write

	#define max(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))

in FORTRAN.
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