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Comment by xelxebar | Hacker News Reader

Hmmm... I vote for writing English in direct AST syntax to avoid these ambiguities.

If only I knew for sure which of the entries on the wikipedia disambiguation page for ‘AST’[1] you were talking about! /s

I actually tend to use curly braces as 'ambiguity braces', when a term is ambiguous. They've met with some amount of success.

Would you show an example?

  a, b, c, or d

  a, b, {c or d}

  a, b, c or {d}

  a, {b or c}, d

(agree (with (I you)))

Shouldn't it be: (agree I (with you))?

Beats me, English grammar isn't my strong suit.

I would write it (agree I you) since it is similar to a conjunction - the "with" is implied.