Agreed. And for that matter there is a tremendous amount of context a programmer must keep in her head. If your bracket stack is top of mind I fear for your use

Agreed. And for that matter there is a tremendous amount of context a programmer must keep in her head. If your bracket stack is top of mind I fear for your users. I am a pedant at heart and have had many in depth conversations about semantic naming, structure and idiomatic code. But leave bracket matching to the IDE.