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"Ditto. I think it's problematic for a programmer to rely on a language to resolve ambiguities for you."

If you are a C programmer maybe you can learn to live with those and manually "resolve them".

But if you dabble in functional languages, e.g Haskell, that's something you come to expect, if not demand of your language.

A programmer should NOT do what a computer can.



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