• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    There’s big advantages to no precedence rules. You don’t have to remember them all. Haskell/SML family create nightmares from trying to have user defined operators with precedence “value” of 0-10. Operators are extremely powerful syntax simplification, but precedence rules makes them too hard to mentally parse.