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in thread What are the drawbacks of autobox?

Indeed, there are many programming books that advocate that precedence should be ignored and all compound expressions should be fully bracketed.

Keep holding on to that false dilemma; I'm sure that Lisp will succeed any day now when the unwashed masses realize that fully-parenthesized homoiconicity is the the One True Syntax form.

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Re^7: What are the drawbacks of autobox?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 01, 2010 at 18:34 UTC
    Keep holding on to that false dilemma;

    Bad call. I didn't say I ascribed to that notion, only that it was prevalent.

    And that precedence has no bearing upon the utility of infix operators.

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