Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (mcewan ) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Precedence Question - (nf) Message-ID: <6190@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 22:26:43 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6190 Posted: Thu Mar 15 22:26:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:56:25 EST Lines: 51 #R:smu:13800001:uiucdcs:27600031:000:2138 uiucdcs!mcewan Mar 15 16:33:00 1984 /**** uiucdcs:net.lang.c / smu!pedz / 9:58 pm Feb 21, 1984 ****/ You people must take me for a complete fool. The responses I have received are mostly stupid and unqualified. The reponses 1 and 2 listed above are a good example of people talking about subjects which they know nothing about. The response 3 above is more reasonable however he seems to have forgotten the original question. The fact that the assign between the ? and the : is the one in question, not the first (left hand) assignement which is not even part of the real question. I realize that an assignment results in a value. If I was this dumb do you think I would have posed the problem in the first place? The fact that precedence of the assignement operator is lower than the precedence of the ?: operator results in the original expressing being incorrect (illegal). The fellow in a note futher down in this file agrees with me. The reason I now say that the expression is illegal is because of all of the weak arguments I have heard to the contrary. Arguements such as, "the colon is not an operator", "precedence is needed only for ambiquities", "precedence has nothing to do with the order of evaluation", "precedence has nothing to do with legal syntax", etc. It is obvious to me that my respondants are far less knowledgable than I about the subject. I hope you appreciate me taking the time to tell all of you people this little story about compilers and the world of parsers. I has been a real drag for me. Perry parsec!smu!pedz /* ---------- */ Sorry about wasting your time, Perry. Its hard for us to tell just how stupid a person is from one little note (you're very good at it, though. You can tell someone is a drooling idiot just by noting that he disagrees with you.) I don't really think that you're a complete fool. I just think that you're a flaming asshole. I hope that you can find another net somewhere that is filled with people who are as super-brilliant as you are. The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of any sane person. Scott McEwan pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan "Hitler was an idealist.""