“Given that, why don't new programming languages just require fully parenthesized expressions for expressions involving other operators?”
That would be excellent and be in line with the trend towards “safe” languages. I have countless examples where I read code with several expressions and when I asked the dev if they really understood the situation rules of this language they usually didn’t. They just wrote something they thought should be ok.
That would be excellent and be in line with the trend towards “safe” languages. I have countless examples where I read code with several expressions and when I asked the dev if they really understood the situation rules of this language they usually didn’t. They just wrote something they thought should be ok.