@@ -233,26 +233,10 @@ states that:
233233* `news` must not be present
234234* `quick` and `brown` are optional -- their presence increases the relevance
235235
236- The familiar operators `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` (also written `&&`, `||` and `!`)
237- are also supported. However, the effects of these operators can be more
238- complicated than is obvious at first glance. `NOT` takes precedence over
239- `AND`, which takes precedence over `OR`. While the `+` and `-` only affect
240- the term to the right of the operator, `AND` and `OR` can affect the terms to
241- the left and right.
242-
243- ****
244- Rewriting the above query using `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` demonstrates the
245- complexity:
246-
247- `quick OR brown AND fox AND NOT news`::
248-
249- This is incorrect, because `brown` is now a required term.
250-
251- `(quick OR brown) AND fox AND NOT news`::
252-
253- This is incorrect because at least one of `quick` or `brown` is now required
254- and the search for those terms would be scored differently from the original
255- query.
236+ The familiar boolean operators `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` (also written `&&`, `||`
237+ and `!`) are also supported but beware that they do not honor the usual
238+ precedence rules, so parentheses should be used whenever multiple operators are
239+ used together. For instance the previous query could be rewritten as:
256240
257241`((quick AND fox) OR (brown AND fox) OR fox) AND NOT news`::
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