> Anyway, if it's such a problem, there's nothing to say you can't put parentheses around every operation in infix notation, at least in any language that I know of!
Most of us have to read code written by other people. Those other people don't have exactly the same precedence defense habits that we do.
No, we don't have to end up in the nasty middle ground where the paretheization is inconsistent and buggy, but we do. Since the "infix is good" theories and argument predict otherwise, how much weight should we give them?
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> Anyway, if it's such a problem, there's nothing to say you can't put parentheses around every operation in infix notation, at least in any language that I know of!
Most of us have to read code written by other people. Those other people don't have exactly the same precedence defense habits that we do.
No, we don't have to end up in the nasty middle ground where the paretheization is inconsistent and buggy, but we do. Since the "infix is good" theories and argument predict otherwise, how much weight should we give them?