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weknowbetter • today at 2:18 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

This drives me nuts. I love LISP but refuse to pretend writing `)))))))` is reasonable.


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uncletaco • today at 2:30 AM

Why are you writing ')))))' instead of your closing parenthesis being autogenerated. Sounds like a recipe for failure.

greenbit • today at 2:32 AM

))))))) isn't so bad, but )))))))) is just getting ridiculous. You have to draw the line somewhere

isr • today at 2:58 AM

picolisp has an interesting solution to this. A single ']' will close all open )'s for that block of code

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