@snarfmason @technomancy part of this as someone who gets real caremad about things like cognitive load and mistake-proofing,
while I can appreciate smalltalk’s approach in ignoring operator precedence, I can also see it biting people who aren’t throughly testing their stuff for unexpected errors
& I don’t view “you should have known better” or “you should have written better tests” as acceptable rejoinders to language design that violates established conventions, even bad ones
@snarfmason @technomancy that said, I think that if any language can pull off something like ignoring operator precedence and just doing LTR operations, it’s smalltalk, because the audience self-selects to the sort of people who can maintain that cognitive load