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From: [e-mail] (Shawn Willden)
Subject: Mixing logical operators
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My copy of the Ada standard (ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A) says in 4.5.4:

    ...for a sequence of operators of the same precedence level,
    the operators are associated in textual order from left to
    right...

which indicates to me that

      if i=5 and j=2 or k=3 then
      ...

should be interpreted as

       if (i=5 and j=2) or k=3 then

but the VAX Ada compiler complains that logical operators cannot be
intermixed.

Is the VAX compiler wrong?  Am I reading the appropriate part of the
standard?

Shawn.

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