[rileyphone]

Not really because the ordering is unambiguous given the parens. No need for operator precedence rules like PEMDAS.

[munificent]

Oh, you still have to worry about precedence. Consider:

    var x = 123
    print(-x.abs())

Or even:

    print(-123.abs())

What do those print? Do they print the same thing?

[rileyphone]

Unary operators are still operators. The integer parsing rules are probably different. In Lisp, -x would be a symbol, and the proper analog to -123 would be (- x) eg.