Thinking a little more about CQL, I have come to the conclusion that
it is stupid for the language to allow queries like

        A and (A or B)

I see no reason to make that legal as "A and" is just a waste of time,
making the query less readable for no gain.  This kind of query in my
view doesn't gain us anything and loses both readability and
understandability.  I don't mind if Rob's parser implements it, but I
am not going to try and describe why such queries should be legal to
end users of CQL, who are supposed to be not technical people.

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