[swift-evolution] Redundant parentheses should result in compile errors.

Adrian Kashivskyy adrian.kashivskyy at me.com
Sat Dec 5 12:40:24 CST 2015


> 2 + 3 % 4 * 5 is not at all readable for me without parentheses.

Agree, it's neither readable, nor predictable, because of the operator precedence. That's why I don't understand why should one omit parentheses in such cases. I'm -1 on this for now. 

Pozdrawiam – Regards,
Adrian Kashivskyy

> Wiadomość napisana przez Nicky Gerritsen <nickygerritsen at me.com> w dniu 05.12.2015, o godz. 19:36:
> 
> 
>> On 5 dec. 2015, at 19:33, Amir Michail <a.michail at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This isn’t just a style issue.
>> 
>> Rather, it would force programmers to remember operator precedence better thus resulting in fewer bugs.
> But is this not also often used to make “bigger” expressions / conditions more readable?
> I think already the example from https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AdvancedOperators.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH27-ID41 is a good example
> 2 + 3 % 4 * 5 is not at all readable for me without parentheses.
> 
> -- Nicky
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