precedences

The reason `and` and `or` are best in parenthesized groups is that it creates confusion in the precedences otherwise.

Having hand-picked operator precedences complicates things further when you allow operator overloading and user defined operators.

As it is, C has just one operator expression syntax (and one set of operator precedences/associativities).

Humans (presumable anyway, from the earlier comments) do the calculations but sometimes overlook the precedences.

Pratt parser simply parsed wrong (presumably because I couldn't figure out the right way to sort the precedences).

A silly lawyer got into trouble trying to use chatgpt-generated precedences in court.

You just have to define your problem set correctly, and work with reality rather than an idealised version of it(goes especially for historical precedences).

The original infix operators and their precedences were natural to reason about...

When the syntax get ambiguous, it's up to the developer to know they're required, just like with parentheses around expressions using infix operators of various precedences.

I keep being irritated by the fact that Pony does not have operator precedences.

The whole legal process surrounding IP, the laws, the patent offices, layers of locals laws, international agreements, weird precedences.

I think a future programming language should have precedences for its operators, though.

The comment about "syntactic sugar" is valid: there are at least four operators with different precedences all meaning "application of function to arguments".

On the contrary, there are a number of precedences where fasting Muslims were offered food, and they would refuse saying "I am fasting" and the other people(Muslims and non Muslims) would simply continue eating.

> "C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly." The most expressive part of C is the syntax oriented around writing terse, side-effectful expressions that manipulate buffers, pointers and counters, with the array of precedences and the pre- and post-increments and assignment operators and short-circuiting operators.

Precedences you can look up and motives - well Apple dumped GCC because they wanted to be able to do things without legally being required to publish source.