comp.lang.java.programmer

Stefan Ram wrote:
> Precendence of operators does not imply chronological sequence
> of evaluation.


> Java programming language implementations must respect the order of evaluation
> as indicated explicitly by parentheses and implicitly by operator precedence.

It's one of the ways in which Java explicitly went in a different direction
from its forebears, up there with fixing the domains of primitive types.

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Lew