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That's more of an issue for languages that use infix notation for operators. Lisp uses prefix notation, that's why

     a-b
is not a problem. As a practitioner, you don't get confused at all when you encounter a variable name that contains a dash, because you don't even read it as a subtraction. Your brain is trained to match only the

    (- a b)
pattern for that.



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