Exceptional coding style

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 10:40:50 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 10:30:33 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> If you believe you know operator precedence, you are probably 
>> wrong. And even if you are right, most other programmer don't.
>
>
> They're not /that/ bad...
>
> + - * / %  are like in math
> << >>      are harder, but all you need is to recall that cout 
> << x + 2;
>            works as written
> |  &       are just like in math (or is addition, and is 
> multiplication)
> ^          is in between | and &
> || &&      are just like in math (or is addition, and is 
> multiplication)


that takes care of helping you remember all the 'sane' cases so 
you don't need parentheses.

If you're doing something obscure like    x = x | y || w & z && 5 
| 6 || 7;
then yeah, you should seriously put parentheses.