The manual is correct. You took it out of context.

Note the first example:
Code:
10 < x
But if you tried:
Code:
if 10 < x
...you'd get an error because you always need parentheses around the comparison in an "if".

The manual says "if (comparison)" -- the comparison is always inside parentheses. Further sets of parentheses can be used to control precedence, but a comparison must reside in a pair of parentheses.

Jibb

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