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- From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Subject: Re: Floating point calculation order
- Message-ID: <1996Jan30.035058.6633@zcon.com>
- Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
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- Organization: Z Consulting Group
- References: <822957118snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:50:58 GMT
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- In article <822957118snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >In article <4e8dg1$ehg@ns.RezoNet.NET> ray@ultimate-tech.com "Ray Dunn" writes:
- >>I do think it's a good idea to parenthesize expressions to make it
- >>clear what you expect to happen.
- >
- >Agreed, although excessive parenthesization can be as bad (worse?) than too
- >little.
-
- For me, putting in extra parenthesis keeps the ordering straight in my
- mind - but I do not rely on the compiler to do any optimization on it
- though. On the other hand, maybe this is an indication of why I love
- LISP! :-)
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- Z
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