Warp wrote:
>   What is curious is that people get confused but they don't try to think
> about it at all. How would you understand "if A is negative, returns -A"?

I see "if A is negative" and parse "-A", then the -A following that 
makes me think "-A, returns -A", instead of "if the number is negative, 
the sign is dropped".

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Tim Cook
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