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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:

[regarding various warning options and program style]

> That one may not be, but there are some that are purely stylistic,
> and different implementations enforce different styles.
>
> One big class is 'redundant' parentheses.  Some implementations
> consider some operations to have 'unnatural' precedence, and will
> advise adding parentheses to make that explicit, while others will
> warn that those parentheses aren't needed and are just redundant.

Personally I would like to see a compiler option that warns
in /all/ cases of redundant parentheses.