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#: 28745 S7/ProgrammingForum unknown
    03-Aug-86 14:24:55
Sb: #28508-IDCMP
Fm: John Foust 72237,135
To: wayne hamilton 73047,544

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Operator precedence strikes again. I always get & and | mixed up, in terms of precedence. Gary Sarff, then how did this fragment of Icon code ever work in the first place? Harbison & Steel, pg. 141, says bitwise & is left associative, level 8 in precedence; bitwise | is 6L. Exclusive OR sits in-between, at level 7L. I think this discussion is interesting in its own right, it's not a complaint about Manx, of course. I'm interested in compiler theory. I've been visiting Ed Ream again, the guy who's writing the PL/68K dial-a-brew assembler/C compiler. It's compiling itself already! He's doing it under CP/M 68K, so maybe it will be easier to port to the Atari ST than the Amiga… :=)