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[–] brian@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

prefix notation doesn't need parentheses either though, at least in this case. lisp uses them for readability and to get multiple arity operators. infix doesn't have any ambiguity either if you parenthesize all operations like that.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

infix doesn’t have any ambiguity either if you parenthesize all operations like that

There isn't any ambiguity even if you don't.