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Subject: Re: How About Disallowing Assignments In Expressions?
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 12.02.2024 02:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> You seem to be saying that something like
>>
>>     bool a = b == c;
>>
>> should not be allowed.
>
> I have the habit to write such specific expressions with parenthesis
>
>     a = (b == c);
>
> for own convenience or better maintainability.  (Just BTW.)

My practice is to avoid redundant parentheses.  If it's important
to emphasize the precedence relationships, in most cases I would
do that something like this:

    a =  b == c;

I find using spacing in such cases to be a better impedance match
to human eye hardware than using redundant parentheses.