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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by zozbot234 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:54PM (#32632451)
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.
Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by actually_a_dog on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:58PM (#32632491)
> 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."

Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by lispm on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:54PM (#32632904)
In Interlisp one would write a super parenthesis, which closes all open parentheses, upto an opening [ or the top ( :

  (a (b c (d ]
and also

  (z (a [b c (d]
        [e f (g]]