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Rule #5: Always Use Parentheses

19 Sunday Apr 2020

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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code clarity, computer programming, operator precedence, order of operations, parentheses, readable code, software design

Enough stories, time for a new rule. Which is to always use parentheses in all except the simplest of math expressions. Languages have a precedence protocol, so the compiler can figure it out, but human readers may be confused.

As always, the underlying motivation involves code clarity for other humans reading the source code — the most important rule of all.

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