[necovek]

Note that I am not disputing the order is "inversed": all I am saying is that there are other common language features in most languages where things don't flow the same way, yet nobody finds it a huge problem.

It's like discussion of RPN or infix for calculations: both do the job, one is more rigorous and clear with no grouping/parentheses, yet we manage just fine with infix operators in our programming languages (or maybe not, perhaps all bugs are due to this? :)).