Bonnie,

Isn't that what we were trying to explain in more detail than could ever be possibly useful to more than a few dozen people on the planet? *LOL*

>I think we all agree that it's best to use parentheses, but I suspect that the reason the question was asked in the first place was because someone was trying to maintain existing code that didn't contain parentheses and wasn't sure if it was working right, or needed to know how it was supposed to work in order to make changes.