diff --git a/collects/honu/doc.txt b/collects/honu/doc.txt
index 9ceca33440..cddf3fcdf8 100644
--- a/collects/honu/doc.txt
+++ b/collects/honu/doc.txt
@@ -255,9 +255,9 @@ NOTE: Here's the precedence and associativity of things above.
    LEFT   |   RIGHT  |  NONASSOC
 ----------+----------+-----------
     .     |          |
-          |  :  isa  |
-          |          |   #n        (tuple selector)
           |          |    (        (function application)
+          |          |   #n        (tuple selector)
+          |  :  isa  |
           |          | !, - (un)
    * / %  |          |
    +  -   |          |
diff --git a/collects/honu/parsers/parse.ss b/collects/honu/parsers/parse.ss
index e90628effe..129ee61de3 100644
--- a/collects/honu/parsers/parse.ss
+++ b/collects/honu/parsers/parse.ss
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@
               (left PLUS MINUS)
               (left TIMES DIV MOD)
               (nonassoc NOT UMINUS) ;; unary operators
-              (left O_PAREN)  ;; this gives application a precedence
-              (nonassoc selector)
               (right COLON isa)
+              (nonassoc selector)
+              (left O_PAREN)  ;; this gives application a precedence
               (left DOT))
        (tokens keywords separators operators val-tokens lex-errors EOF for-prec)
        (error (lambda (a b stx start end)