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Re:From design patterns to category theory by empthought on Thursday October 05, 2017 @07:04AM (#15408196)
Personally I don't see the advantage of )}]]})} over ))))))).
Re:From design patterns to category theory by kazinator on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:09PM (#15412213)
It's more time consuming to close )}]]})}. With ))) we just repeatedly type ))) until the cursor jumps to the target opening paren we are trying to close. With a mixture of different parens we have to interrupt what we are doing and determine the correct parens which will continue the closing sequence.
Re:From design patterns to category theory by flavio81 on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:38PM (#15418645)
>With ))) we just repeatedly type ))) until the cursor jumps to the target opening paren we are trying to close.

Exactly.

Or, the IDE can close all the parens for you: SLIME command "slime-close-all-parens-in-sexp", which you can map to whatever key combination you want.