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No problem! This really only comes up in very edge cases anyway, which is partially why I don’t think it’s the worst mental model for most people. As long as you know that you can’t put let in expression position, that’s really the only place it goes wrong. Most people who haven’t used a language like Ruby would even think of items as being expressions in the first place.



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