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It bothered me a while for "short" boolean expressions to have a linter expect parens, where I'd simultaneously expect everyone with a high school degree to understand the implicit operator precedence.

Then, since my first bug having been merged that was caused by a && vs || operator precedence mistake, I like my parens-always ESLint rule (or whatever exactly it was called).

Even redundant parens can start to look as pleasent as indents, after getting used to them.

In short, I think expressions like (a && b || c && d || e) are a footgun and linters should forbid them. Parens fit well with logical thinking, similar to relative clauses in language.



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