Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:07:31 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b8044c752840ceb89291b47395d36dfc"; logging-data="23558"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX180a8LSm1yEnbexGyQOiDBn" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+pDi2qIa+m38Z0DxZ5hLAE1f5eA= sha1:VEbB358K5NHK9eoynaEKueTiYL8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:99914 Malcolm McLean writes: [...] > Rule of three. > > Parentheses may have only three levels of nesting. Balderdash. [...] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"