When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.