In most languages the parsing rules are pretty sane even for humans. The question you're quoting is the perfect example of a rule that's unreasonable, no matter

In most languages the parsing rules are pretty sane even for humans. The question you're quoting is the perfect example of a rule that's unreasonable, no matter the answer, because there's no way in hell a normal person can remember that without first being burned and I'm pretty sure that's hard for the compiler to parse as well. > Although Coffeescript is worse than most, any language will allow you to write expressions that are hard for humans to parse But regardless of the truthiness of this statement, it has no value. It's like saying that no matter what you eat, in large quantities it can cause humans harm. And yet there's a clear distinction between ingesting mercury or lettuce.