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Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) by msla on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:42AM (#38889713)
> except in broken languages, of which the only notable one is shell

The array language people (APL, J, K) are going to come in and protest, but you aren't going to be able to understand them.

/s

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Re:Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) by mlochbaum on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:00AM (#38891074)
Hey, even Dijkstra agrees with us on this one:

> I remember how much more pleasant the predicate calculus became to work with after we had decided to give con- and disjunction the same binding power and thus to consider p ∧ q ∨ r an ill-formed formula.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF (page 4-5)

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