> How do you feel about "extraneous" parentheses to force or clarify
> expression evaluation order? I parenthesize obsessively, for exactly the
> reasons that I {} everything - the two reasons above.

I use them all the time.   I do (sizeof foo) - 1 instead of sizeof foo
- 1, for example.   Parentheses don't generally consume vertical
space.

I don't buy the notion that extra braces increase reliability.   Only
a complete moron or a vi user would ever make the mistake of thinking
that something was part of a conditional statement when it was not.

Okay, so please flame me about the vi comment privately - some of my
best friends are vi users...   :')   The reason I mention it is that
vi doesn't auto-indent, which leaves people open to making stupid
nesting errors that would never occur if they used a real editor.
Oops, there I go again - sorry.   :')

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