alt Hacker NewsWe absolutely order more likely / preferred options before other options. Codifying that as a short circuit optimization is a feature.
We absolutely order more likely / preferred options before other options. Codifying that as a short circuit optimization is a feature.
We rarely have preferences that are independent of the concrete use case. Your argument boils down to saying that existing precedence hierarchies are badly designed (or else they would always match everyone’s intuitions), but that’s not the case. (Operator precedence is only one illustrative example here.)