Ternary conditional and assignment operator precedence

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The operator precedence in the C/C++ language in not defined by a table or numbers, but by a grammar. Here is the grammar for conditional operator from C++0x draft chapter 5.16 Conditional operator [expr.cond]:

conditional-expression:
    logical-or-expression
    logical-or-expression ? expression : assignment-expression

The precedence table like this one is therefore correct when you use assignment on the left side of the doublecolon, but not when used on the right side. What is the reason for this asymmetry I have no idea. It may be a historical reason: in C the conditional result was not lvalue, therefore assigning something to it had no sense, and allowing assignment to be accepted without parentheses might seem smart at that time.

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