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Re: Memorizing C operator precedence

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

>   Sometimes, one might want to write x==0&y==0 without
>   shortcut evaluation (to avoid a jump-operation), so "&"
>   has less precedence than "==".

A more common reason (at least in my experience) is when you want to do
a bunch of things and return if they were all successful:

  return do_this() & and_that() & the_other();

(though !(do_this() | and_that() | the_other()) is often safer).

-- 
Ben.

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