Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)
by zozbot234 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:54PM
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There is a real drawback to stacking more than three or four closing parens like this, without spacing them out: it's hard and in fact impossible to count them at a glance. Not an issue if you have a code editor with auto paren matching, but it can be an annoyance when reading LISP-like code on the web or elsewhere.
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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)
by actually_a_dog on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:58PM
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> it can be an annoyance when reading LISP-like code
Just mentally collapse any number of consecutive close parens into a thing that reads like "END."