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weknowbetter
6 hours ago
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corroclaro
43 minutes ago
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My editor (emacs) shows how I close the scopes and it is easy enough. I'm not sure why writing
) ) ) ) )
would be so much better.
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uncletaco
6 hours ago
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Why are you writing ')))))' instead of your closing parenthesis being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.
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bitwize
47 minutes ago
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The 2026 version is: Why are you writing Lisp instead of your code being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.
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greenbit
6 hours ago
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))))))) isn't so bad, but )))))))) is just getting ridiculous. You have to draw the line
somewhere
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isr
6 hours ago
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picolisp has an interesting solution to this. A single ']' will close all open )'s for that block of code
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packetlost
4 hours ago
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That has to be a nightmare for parsers lol
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ashkankiani
1 hours ago
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not really. it's just pop all of the stack and return to depth 0. you can still detect imbalanced parens, but i'm not sure how it affects the provenance question of where a missing one would point out in errors.
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