Re: Request For Comments: 3-space indentation style

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 02:51:31AM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great William Ahern once stated:
> > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 09:31:05PM -0600, Andrew Starks wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >    (At least we're not arguing for a type system or lambda notation or a
> > >    ternary operator...)
> > > 
> > 
> > That last argument over the ternary operator totally confused me. I had
> > always correctly parsed the precedence of and/or expressions without
> > thinking. But after reading that huge thread (or threads) I totally lost all
> > confidence. I don't know why. But the mere discussion of it really messed
> > with my head. Now whenever I write a complex boolean expression I find
> > myself carefully stepping through it, like a child counting pennies
> > (centavos?) with his fingers.
> > 
> > I've written ciphers, virtual machines, and all manner of other kinds of
> > code. But now I feel stumped by Lua's boolean operators. It's the worst
> > feeling.
> 
>   Think of the operators as:
> 
> 	and = *
> 	or  = +
> 

I understand the precedence. I'm just saying that now I'm overly paranoid
for no good reason. Like I suffer from a passive PTSD from the thread.