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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: Eliding parens
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:39:49 +0000
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luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes:

> For lisp-type languages, this would mean never having to
> count parens in order to close everything. It's just extra
> redundant book-keeping.

True, but with a decent IDE one doesn't really have to count them
anyway: closing one makes it clear which opening one is thus being
closed, and auto-indent is extra help / confirmation. This is very
much why one doesn't write Lisp using Notepad. (-:

-- Mark