On 04/12/2012 02:03 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > On 4/12/2012 6:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> I would also suggest that a competent programmer would know what they >> don't know; when reading code they'd look it up, when writing code >> they'd insert parentheses for clarity. > > Yes, of course I 100% agree with that. But then by your definition > code that does not have the "parentheses for clarity" is written by > incompetent programmers, and it seems reasonable to have a warning > that warns them of this incompetence :-)
Sorry for the confusion: I intended to write >> I would also suggest that your competent programmer would know what >> they don't know; when reading code they'd look it up, when writing >> code they'd insert parentheses for clarity. Using two different definitions of "competent programmer" without clarification makes me an incompetent writer, I suppose. :-) Andrew.
