precedence of cast

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycoc.com> wrote in message 
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> Denis Koroskin:
>> That's generally a good idea to have such a table, to reduce number of
>> trial and error, for example.
>
> Having a reference table is positive, but even better is to design a 
> language & programs (D) that usually don't need the programmer (or the 
> person that reads the code) to read such table to understand what the code 
> does.
>
> D follows the design of the C language in many things. C has lots of 
> precedence rules, while a language like Ada has chosen to have much less 
> Operator Precedence Levels, to simplify the work of the programmer, see 
> point 4F here:
>
> http://www.adahome.com/History/Steelman/steeltab.htm
>
> This means that D may eventually choose to decrease its number of 
> precedence levels to simplify it. On the other hand Python has something 
> like 17 precedence levels:
>
> http://books.google.it/books?id=nEJ-jcYF2fMC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=python+operator+precedence+rules&source=web&ots=3_tES429hg&sig=WiLW5C5JyNXTg1HyJssbM-pe1Ns&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA96,M1
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

OT: is there anything about D that you _are_ satisfied with?