> > Sorry for the "newbie" question, but I thought that the indentation was
> > based on the list structure, and not the other way round.  If the parens
> > were based on the indentation then we wouldn't even need to use them.  My

> This is somewhat analogous to putting punctuation marks on their own
> lines in english language:  Since the grammatical structure of a
> sentence will already point out fairly well, where each sentence or
> phrase ends, there isn't much point in exagerating the importance of
> punctuation marks beyond all reasonable proportions.  Punctuation is
> important, since it disambiguates and modifies sentence meanings and
> length in a number of cases.  But it isn't the sole or even most
> important means of recognizing sentence length, structure and
> meaning.  So Don't elide punctuation, but don't exagerate it's
> importance either.