Message from discussion New notation

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 01:01:32 -0400
From: Ken Tilton <kennytil...@optonline.net>
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Rares Marian wrote:
> What if we solved the readability problem?
> 
> I know emacs indents everything nicely but suppose we did the following:
> #1. Continue using parentheses to open
> #2. Use ] to close remaining open parentheses up to cursor on current line
> #3. Use } to close remaining open parentheses up to current line in file
> 
> Alternatively, we could:
> #4. Use ] to close remaining open parentheses for just the current 
> argument to a function
> #5. Use } for #4 but up to the current line

Why didn't we think of this before!? Thanks!!

kenny

ps. What parentheses? k


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