alt Hacker News- and + operators have the same precedence. And a similar bug is possible if the operators were the same (both -). So I’m not sure it’s right to blame this on operator precedence or mixed operators. It’s just that, ultimately, the “consume” needs to be subtracted, not added.
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genxy • today at 4:22 AM
Didn't you just suffer from the same trap the parent was trying to avoid?
Non-mixed always goes strictly left to right, regardless of the operator, which I haven't seen anywhere near as much struggling with.
But yes, I personally parenthesize `a-b-c` explicitly, because it's not worth it for me to read and wonder if parenthesizing order matters later. Costs less than a second to write, saves a second or ten each time I read it - that's an excellent tradeoff imo, and is a trivial pattern to follow.
(Associative operators are fine, obviously)