> The fully parenthesized version is too noisy... It's not just that it's too noisy. One wonders on reading it whether the parens are there to override the def

> The fully parenthesized version is too noisy... It's not just that it's too noisy. One wonders on reading it whether the parens are there to override the default precedence. I have the feeling that there's a trick going on in there and I have to look much harder to verify that it is normal.