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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:38:30 -0800
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On 11/11/2013 06:05 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:01:07 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
> following:
>
>
>> "Ugh, what's this close paren?  Does it terminate the get(), or the
>> print()?  I need to go back and count open parens to make sure"
>
> 	No... You need to use an editor/IDE that will highlight the matching
> parens for you...

I have one of those, and I still sometimes miss one.  :/

--
~Ethan~