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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by anamax on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:13PM (#308594)
Interlisp had the last part correct. [ was a special open paren and ] closed all open parens back to (and including) the most recent [.
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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by michaelneale on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:20PM (#308599)
Nice - I remember someone saying that that in emacs you could have it format it using indentation and now show the parens (or maybe it wasn't emacs).
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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by silentbicycle on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:42PM (#308786)
It was Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/UnParenMode
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