On 04/12/2012 10:46 AM, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 4/12/2012 4:55 AM, Fabien Chêne wrote: > >> I've got a radically different experience here, real bugs were >> introduced while trying to remove this warning, and as far as I can >> tell, I've never found any bugs involving precedence of&& and || -- >> in the code I'm working on --, whose precedence is really well known >> from everyone. > > You simply can't make a claim on behalf of everyone like this, and it's > very easy to prove you wrong, i personally know many competent > programmers who do NOT know this rule.
I realize that I am in danger of using the No True Scotsman argument, but I think I'd have to question the "competent" assertion. It's rather like saying you know many competent carpenters who don't know how to use a biscuit joiner: while they may be decent carpenters, you'd have to ask how much carpentry they'd actually done. I would also suggest that a competent programmer would know what they don't know; when reading code they'd look it up, when writing code they'd insert parentheses for clarity. Andrew. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman
