Is there ANY chance we can fix the bitwise operator precedence

Leandro Lucarella luca at llucax.com.ar
Mon Jun 21 18:43:54 PDT 2010


Jonathan M Davis, el 21 de junio a las 17:03 me escribiste:
> bearophile wrote:
> 
> > Andrei Alexandrescu:
> >> The problem is, if Walter sees us bickering too much, he'll use that as
> >> pretext to veto out any improvement.
> > 
> > You are wrong, Walter is an adult able to understand discussions, not a
> > capricious dictator :-) Syntax and other things require discussions,
> > sometimes even longish ones.
> > 
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> Yes, he's an adult, but if he's not particularly interested in the change to 
> begin with, and the folks who want the change can't agree on what the change 
> should be, he could easily choose to leave things as they are - especially 
> because things work just fine as they are. We'd like to be able to make a 
> particular error harder to make, but it's not exactly a groundbreaking 
> change. Walter could decide to work on more important things rather than 
> worrying about this one. There's nothing childish about that.

There is *already* a patch by Chad Joan:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3536

It's not exactly the same proposed here, but if Walter gives green light
maybe he'll be happy to update it. Just give him some feedback in that
bug report when Walter is comfortable with the change.

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