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Sure, that's entirely possible.

I'm curious to know if you knew from the moment of your birth that you should look at the operator table in this case, or if you learned that mitigation on a particular day. If the latter, what might you have done before you learned that?

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I don't know. I feel like I've always needed to think about any line of code with several operators on the same line, but I've been in this business for a long time, so I might have learned the habit from negative experience.

I'm glad you mentioned it though, because now I'm curious if there's a difference among programmers who score well or poorly on a cognitive reflection test. Maybe people with a tendency to suppress their intuitive response are also less likely to think that a line of code has an obvious meaning?

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