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A language that allows you to arbitrarily omit parentheses would be impossible to parse. That’s not the case for unused variables.
by xigoi 2y ago
A language that allows you to arbitrarily omit parentheses would be impossible to parse. That’s not the case for unused variables.
- 082349872349872 2y agoNot impossible: some lisps allowed arbitrary omission of close parens (upon finding a closing square bracket). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093339 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20979 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20979
- em-bee 2y agoHTML allows to omit closing tags for <p>, <li> and others