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Re:What's New in F# 9 by kazinator on Monday November 11, 2024 @02:08AM (#42105063)
But you can see that about anything with an arbitrarily complicated grammar. If you have internalized the grammar, then you can place parentheses into any utterance to show the structure, which means you can see where they would go even if you don't actually write them in.

Yes, the language make a lot more sense if you know how to do that compared to if you don't.

Re:What's New in F# 9 by sevensor on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:04AM (#42107632)
> anything with an arbitrarily complicated grammar

But that’s the thing about F#: the grammar isn’t arbitrarily complicated. It’s really quite simple, which is why mentally inserting lispy parentheses helps me reason about it.