On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

I've seen experienced coworkers rather adding superfluous pairs of parentheses just to make sure or because they still don't know better.

nothing wrong with superfluous parentheses -- it makes it clear and it's more robust in the face of refactoring.

It fact, my answer to "precedence could be confusing here" is "use an extra parentheses and don't worry about it."

-Chris

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