[FFmpeg-cvslog] r10500 - trunk/libavcodec/vc1.c

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> > They may not be necessary semantically, but I for one do not know
> > operator precedence well enough to be able to tell at a glance whether
> > the version without them would perform the ternary conditional before or
> > after the equality comparison. The addition of the parentheses makes it
> > plain, and does not hurt readability in the aesthetic sense IMO.
> > 
> > I am certainly not the only person who would be so unable, and though I
> > am unlikely to contribute actual code anytime this decade, there is
> > nothing which says that some who might are not in the same boat. In
> > addition, making the code more comprehensible even to people who do not
> > contribute is helpful for (at the least) cases where people would be
> > told to RTFS.
> 
> Thanks for articulating this better than I could. Aside from "*/+-" I
> can never remember operator precedence rules (which I think change
> subtly between different languages). That's why I like parens around ops
> that deviate from the 4 basic math operators.

so you plan to write:
a = (b + (c[5]));

instead of

a = b + c[5];

as that could be

((a = b) + c)[5];

?

;)

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