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		d-lisp on Oct 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'amper... It's possible that parsing a complex condition wrapped by parentheses was found more convenient.

loup-vaillant on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

It’s not. Not for humans (the extra parenthesis is just useless clutter), and not for machines (I’ve written parsers, both alternatives are as easy to implement).

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