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by emsy 2380 days ago
Oh sure what’s the number of parens for (+ 1 (* 2 (/ 3 4))) in C? Granted, you don’t have to bother with precedence in Lisp
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I'd bet there have been more bugs related to implicit operator precedence compared to ( ) explicit. And given that it's numeric operations, I'll bet some were very costly...