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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
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Subject: Re: strange case of "if ((a & b))"
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Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> These look strange to me - the inner parens don't do anything.
> I wouldn't write it with 2x parens for the same reason I wouldn't write =
it with
> 8x parens.

Agreed, but shouldn't we just drop the excess parens rather than
doubling down on useless notation?

			regards, tom lane