Re: [classad-users] c++ & java inconsistency

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As you can see the use of parentesys is different, I don't know wheter it 
has been fixed in the latest java release but if not, can you please check it?

BTW, which should be the right representation ? (I guess it's the second 
one but... never know..)

Both are correct representations--what problem does it cause you that they 
are different?

Java decides where the parentheses should go, regardless of what the user 
does. C++ preserves the parentheses as the users puts them in. Both of 
these have advantages and disadvantages, but it's not clearly correct or 
incorrect in either case.

We have talked about making the parentheses the same between Java and C++, 
but we have not yet done so. I believe there are ways to adjust how Java 
does parentheses, but I don't recall how.

So the real question is--how big of a problem is this for you? Does it 
cause incorrect results in evaluation anywhere?

-alain