Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:09:15AM -0500, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> James> I wish there was a better way to handle those closing )s
> 
> *Some* lisp variants allowed a single "]" to close all open parens.

BTW, some more detail for those that haven't seen this: in such lisps (I
think interlisp is the one I saw), you can use [ and ] as parentheses, and a
closing ] will automatically add any necessary normal parens to reach the
level of the matching opening [.  Thus you typically use [ and ] for "major"
levels.

> I don't care for it myself

I didn't like what I saw of it either; it just seemed weird seeing all those
unmatched parentheses ... maybe you get used to it.

-Miles
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