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Re:Clojure: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in 250 beautiful lines by nihilocrat on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:53PM (#451109)
Make an editor which will randomly color-code each set of parentheses such that they or their background is in a set of colors which don't appear as other keywords (like function defs or strings or whatever) so as not to add confusion. You now have a way of more easily seeing every matching pair of parens without having to hover over each one. However, now you have to deal with a strange assortment of colors on your screen.

Oh wait, you can just use a gradient of colors instead of random ones, with the more-nested paren pairs having colors farther in on the gradient. Silly me.

Re:Clojure: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in 250 beautiful lines by riobard on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @06:50AM (#451982)
"Oh wait, you can just use a gradient of colors instead of random ones, with the more-nested paren pairs having colors farther in on the gradient. Silly me."

Good idea! Is it doable in VIM now? :|