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Re:Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules by skn on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @05:57AM (#1474355)
Same here, but I find that questions on precedence often pop up during the interview process and the interviewer wants to know details and he is not satisfied with the parens.
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Re:Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules by eru on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @08:07AM (#1474569)
Yes, that's a bad interview question. I guess they do not care about you knowing the precedences, but just use it as an easily tested proxy for your general knowledge of the language.

I had interviewers ask about compiler flags. That was even more dreadful. I said I knew Haskell, not that I knew GHC. (In the end, I could answer the question, but they felt so wrong.)

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