Re: Dangling else

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
11 Mar 2006 23:32:45 -0500

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Mar 2006 23:32:45 -0500
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 06-02-154 06-02-168 06-03-008
Keywords: parse, syntax
Posted-Date: 11 Mar 2006 23:32:45 EST

On 2006-03-05, Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> wrote:
>
> our moderator wrote:
>>[I don't know anyone who thinks that C's million levels of precedences
>>are a good idea...
>
> Bear in mind, though, that attempts to reduce the number of levels have
> often been found equally unsatisfactory. Pascal tried, and the result was
> counterintuitive cases where certain parentheses, which everyone agrees
> ought to be redundant, are in fact necessary.


Could you give examples here? Are you refering to the experimental
notations for exponentiation 2^(-1) in some dialects ?

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