> I wrote the pretty-printer for our compiler, KReMLin, looking at the reference table of operator precedence in C, resulting in a minimal amount of parentheses

> I wrote the pretty-printer for our compiler, KReMLin, looking at the reference table of operator precedence in C, resulting in a minimal amount of parentheses being inserted; I happily thought I did the optimal thing, until it turned out that no one can remember the relative precedence of + and <<, or | and - – I have myself since then forgotten, and I’ve heard that it even differs across languages... When I was a young(er) and naive(r) C programmer, I had printed out this precedence table for occasional reference while coding. I was rather proud that I knew of such subtle corner cases! I've since learned and don't need to use that table anymore... because I just use parentheses to avoid ambiguity. Don't rely on subtle behavior in your code, folks. As the Python Mantra says: explicit is better than implicit.