Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!bbncca!keesan From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Precedence Question - (nf) Message-ID: <573@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 09:59:06 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.573 Posted: Tue Feb 14 09:59:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:43:36 EST References: <59@haddock.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 ----------------------------- A trivial quibble: John Levine (ima!johnl) says > In regard to this: > > cat = foo ? fu = bar : mouse; > Precedence has nothing to do with it. and > The only possible parse for the first expression is: > > cat = foo ? (fu = bar) : mouse; ---------------- I agree that the question originally posed by smu!pedz has nothing to do with precedence, but rather with order of evaluation. However, precedence does ordeN{ -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,wjh12,ima}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA