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SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 day ago100% with you. “Left to right” as far as I can tell only exists to make otherwise “unsolvable” problems a kind of official solution
It’s not a rule, it’s a convention, and it exists so as to avoid making mistakes with signs, mistakes you made in almost every example you gave where you disobeyed left to right.