Agree. This isn't really a problem unless you also think that extra parentheses is a problem. In many languages you could write: > if (a + b) > (c + d) or >

Agree. This isn't really a problem unless you also think that extra parentheses is a problem. In many languages you could write: > if (a + b) > (c + d) or > if a + b > c + d And they're equivalent. Yet nobody complains that there are too many options.