>>Your preferences versus a century or two of consensus on mathematical syntax. Try this in other languages - a minus (and in some cases, plus) between any other operator and an expression means just that the sign of the expression is inverted (or isn't).
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>I know.
>But you know what they say ...
>Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum

But I don't believe in devil, either :)