semantics of ** (unexpected/inconsistent?)

[Ben Finney]

Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> writes:

> I generally do not expect operator precedence to be reliable at all

Have another read of the thread. The OP's confusion was not over
operator precedence, but over how names resolve to values in
expressions.

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