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Gareth McCaughan  
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 More options Mar 29 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaug...@pobox.com>
Date: 2000/03/29
Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses

Dorai Sitaram wrote:
> Well, the CLISP pretty-printer gives this "semi-dangled" output:
..
> Ie, rparens are either on the same line as their
> corresponding lparen, or they are clumped together on a
> line of their own, where they line up (column-wise)
> with an lparen above them.

I use this style too, sometimes. I've never quite
worked out why :-).

>                             But if you look closer, you
> will realize with a jolt that the lparen that an rparen
> lines up with is _not_ its matching lparen...

This bothers me every time I use that style. Which
is one reason I don't do so very often.

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Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaug...@pobox.com
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