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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> People coming from the substitution model of programming...
> I'm only trying to see how this could make sense.

I'm trying to see how someone could believe that fixing an order of
evaluation doesn't make sense. Of what use is arbitrariness to the
semantics of the language?