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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 = +
 Thus, the expression:
	A and B or C
will be parsed as
	A * B + C
 So, just as '*' has a higher precedence than '+', so does 'and' have a
higher precedence than 'or'.
 -spc

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