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		user-the-name on Jan 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code That absolutely breaks the law of least astonishment. It's worse to look familiar but have hidden differences than to just look completely different.

rak1507 on Jan 17, 2022 [–]

Yeah maybe, but in my opinion it's better than the alternative (having loads of operator precedence rules that can change subtly between languages and never really being sure of anything).

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