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bitwize: Not if it's s-expression-based! (laughs in smug lisp weenie)

aleph_minus_one: Or, if the programming language uses infix binary operators:Not if the programming language has evaluation order from left to right, e.g.2+3*4is evaluated as(2+3)*4.For example J uses this kind of evaluation.

recursivedoubts: hyperscript has some operator precedence, but within a given general precedence level you have to explicitly parenthesize if you use different operators:https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078a...https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078a...this eliminates most practical precendence questionsNB: one thing that may strike people as strange is that the parse methods are on the parse elements themselves, I like to localize everything about a parse element in one place