Broadcasting inconsistency between addition and multiplication

[StefanKarpinski]

Don’t worry, we won’t, since it violates associativity of +:

Idea Julia Lite or 'Juliette'?

With regard to your idea about having an error without parentheses, that seems intuitive and sensible (IMO), I don’t know what you mean by ‘brittle’. It’s brittle in the sense that it would break from very slight changes, like seemingly insignificant parentheses or extracting part of the computation into a separate bit of code and saving it as a variable. A+1 is unambiguous, at least.Why can’t that work? One of these operations has to not work to avoid the associativity failure: A + I …