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Re:How do we read code? by mcherm on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:05AM (#4943159)
I find it rather amusing, given the context, that I spent a long time (more than 30 seconds) trying to figure out the match for your unbalanced parenthesis. I don't think I would have done that if it hadn't been a paragraph about Lisp: I kept going back thinking "Wait, I didn't realize I was in a parenthetical expression... does this change the interpretation of what is being said?".
Re:How do we read code? by kolektiv on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @11:34AM (#4943327)
Seconded. Surprising how distracting something so trivial is given recent (unrelated) context. My mind immediately sprang to the conclusion that perhaps this sentence is partially applied - a legacy of an evening spent writing some interesting functional code for treating MIDI as observable sequences.