On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:
Anyway, I
frankly prefer to see explicit parens, so the precedence
is clear ??? it's easier to read and less error-prone for the maintainer.
This, a thousand times, this. I taught my guys "think of coding as write
once, read many. I could care less how much more work it is, write code
such that it is the easiest to understand".
I assume compiler braindeath and always code around it. An extra pair of
parentheses never hurt.
-uso.