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Re: [NOISE] Curly braces [was Re: Curl]



   Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:38:48 -0600
   From: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>
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   Quoth Michael Vanier on Thursday, 29 November:
   : 
   : Don't you mean:
   : 
   : (> (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a)) 0)
   : 
   : ?  I think that unmakes your point.

   I would rather say that it emphasizes another poster's point about
   IDEs:  He was probably in a mail editor rather than a code editor, and
   it didn't do the paren blinking he's learned to rely upon.

Yes.  If I may be forgiven for mentioning it, as far as I know, I
invented the paren blinking feature.