Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:57:00 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 17 Message-ID: <877bsgwbmb.fsf@example.invalid> References: <54snn6$8j5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3df03142-538d-6a60-e867-d71249aff4cc@insomnia247.nl> <10jmfiv$v99t$4@dont-email.me> <10jt8ct$32ou8$1@dont-email.me> <10juemk$3eijl$6@dont-email.me> <10mn519$lc5i$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10mo62p$2m7mh$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0db4167e4fce87fac5bdbaa4fcee82c"; logging-data="2801628"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+XIn8saBHzetYGDcx4zvM/" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VjMaQhnBbF1T3SbgkgMPC1KcEzg= sha1:1oK6Fe/BwOLBJHOfQxOjk1IbpOw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ada:59656 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:22:03 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de > Ghloucester wrote: > >> ... experience shows that developers are often loath to insert what >> they consider to be redundant parenthesis (because “Everybody knows >> what the precedence is ... > > Or because, you know, if in doubt they can refer to the documentation, > which they always keep handy, right? Certainly, but consulting the documentation can increase the time it takes to read an expression by an order of magnitude or more. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */