Pointless grumble about nesting parentheses RE: How will you know that you've woken up from cryogenic sleep?

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 23:53:02 MDT


Justin Corwin wrote:
> Heh. While I'm usually pretty defensive about drugs(being an
> enthusiastic promoter of recreational use, and therapeutic
> use of MDA and variants(which is illegal in the US, but has
> been used to great effect by psychiatrists in Switzerland and
> Amsterdam. I was just going to let this particular 'bastard
> hippies hoppped up on acid, and doing dope' instance slide,
> since it is a self defense thread. And when someone
> delusional attacks you, generally there is very little
> sympathy as to what brand of hallucinegen or etc. they happen
> to be imbibing.

I don't know about the rest of the coders out there, but when I read this
paragraph, it hurts. It's the two levels of nesting which are not exited
correctly (left parentheses without right parentheses.)

To anyone else who spends most of their days coding... does this kind of
thing get to you too? Do you read this and think ' Error: ")" expected ' ?

Emlyn

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