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Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
>> Sounds like "maybe"
"Probably c" can't be coded but a, b or c can. That's the distinction.
>> I think Layne was suggesting after an open paren
If he meant open parenthesis versus "parentheses" that makes sense.
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Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
I think it simpler to impose parentheses on unary opeators and you can automate that with regular expressions.
>> 1) a minus sign immediately after another operator is probably the sign for a negative number
There's no "maybe" statement in Java so this has limited value.
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Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
2) a minus sign at the beginning is also for a negative number
Minus signs are not restricted to the beginning so this has limited value.
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Originally posted by Rick O'Shay:
T'ing is he's trying code it and you can distinguish a sign operator from an arithmetic or logical operator using the same rule everywhere, beginning, end or otherwise. In many cases it's better to use a general rule than a set of special case rules.
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