On 1 Aug 2000 06:24:26 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>  Also | should have lower precedence than &, so if we have this:
>
>x-y | y-z & x+z
>
>it should be interpreted in this way:
>
>(x-y) | ((y-z) & (x+z))
>
>  In this way it will be consistent with mathematics.

Call me stupid but I've never interpreted it this way. Instead, I'd
have read it thus:

x - ( (y?1:0) | (y?1:0) ) & (x?1:0)) + z

I don't know why, it's just that when I see logic operators I think
it's reasonable for them to expect boolean operands (promoted to
boolean if needed). And with that in mind, I expect multiplication to
have a higher precedence than addition, regardless of context.


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