error-prone infix [was Re: Curly braces]

[Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>]

Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs <gls@labean.East.Sun.COM> writes:

> Oh, c'mon; it's no worse than when people write
> 
>   (-b + sqrt(b*b-4*a*c)) / 2*a
> 
> when it should have been
> 
>   (-b + sqrt(b*b-4*a*c)) / (2*a)

Guy is perhaps subtly pointing out that my infix example contained two
errors, not one as I intended.  Did I unwittingly strengthen my own
point?  Or maybe I just weakened the illusion that people who know how
to program in Scheme are all amazingly great programmers.