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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Assigning void
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:45:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> wrote:

(snip)
> However, the inventors in C did spend some time contemplating typical
> uses before deciding on the precedence of the operators, and they
> expected that nesting ?: like this:

>    cond1 ? value1 :
>    cond2 ? value2 :
>    cond3 ? value3 :
>            value4

> would be a typical use and chose the precedence and associativity to
> allow this without extra parentheses.

I suppose, but some of the C precedence rules are the result of
the late addition of the logical operators && and ||. 

Previously, the & and | operators were used, and they kept their
precedence even after && and || were added. 

-- glen