[comp.lang.c] parenthesized expressions

gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/28/89)

In article <14124@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
-Most of those languages also have _other_ means of forcing evaluation
-order in useful contexts.  For example, all of the above mentioned 
-languages allow the user to prohibit optimization of expressions
-involving associative operators - using parenthesis.

And so does C now (although not in precisely those terms).