[Tutor] a puzzle about -3**2 vs (-3)**2

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Sat Aug 1 18:53:37 CEST 2015


On 8/1/2015 9:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The bottom line is, there is no universal right or wrong answer for the
> precedence rules for operators, although some rules are less right than
> others.

My bottom line is that the liberal use of parens reconciles them all, 
particularly for any humans reading the code that need to change it.

Emile







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