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

From: outlawpoet - (outlawpoet@stealth.hell.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 03:12:54 MDT


oo. sorry about that.

I wasn't proofreading correctly because I was entering that on a palm device.

Apologies to all.

add )) after "...Amsterdam"

Justin Corwin
outlawpoet@hell.com

"Is all the world but jails and churches?
                ~Rage against The Machine

--- "Emlyn O'regan" <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au> wrote:
>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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