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I believe it's purely seeing lines that end with )))))))) that leads the OP's observation ("To me, how Lisp looks is its worst quality--the number of parenthese
by dxhdr 8y ago
I believe it's purely seeing lines that end with )))))))) that leads the OP's observation ("To me, how Lisp looks is its worst quality--the number of parentheses is just mind boggling"). You don't get that in a C-like syntax. In practice you don't read each individual closing paren to understand the code so it doesn't matter. But it sure looks "scary."
- lisper 8y ago> You don't get that in a C-like syntax. No, instead you get something like );}]);) except that that's usually split up over several lines. BTW, it's pretty easy to tweak Lisp's syntax so that your parens don't get so deeply nested. See https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.lisp https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.l... for an example.
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