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Another useful thing to have if you're a C programmer is an ASCII chart; sadly there aren't very many readily-available charts that contain all the information you might want, so, in the immortal words of Blue Peter, "here's one I made earlier".
Far too many people don't know how the operator precedence works for C, Objective C or C++, which means they write code that would scare even a Lisp programmer (i.e., far, far too many parentheses [that's brackets, for those that don't know]). This isn't helped by the fact that it's hard to find a precedence table; even the specification doesn't contain one (the precedence information is encoded in the grammar rules in the spec.).
Anyway, here's a precedence table that I've written based on the C99 spec.
Well, it's nearly the end of August and I'm still bashing away at the keys trying to get my program to a state where I can sell it. There have been some interesting challenges so far and I can see a few more lurking on the horizon; still, it shouldn't be too long now.
I'm just hoping that people will want to buy it when I've finished. On the plus side, I've had a few more ideas whilst I've been working on this project, so I've certainly got some interesting work ahead of me :-)
What a cool game :-) Unfortunately, the install program doesn't seem to be very reliable… I don't think it's setting the file date stamps correctly, which caused me problems when I tried to upgrade to version 1.31 using the patch MacSoft just released.
If only MacSoft had followed Apple's guidelines and made it a drag-n-drop installation. Still, never mind.