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The Serious End Brace (Score:1)

by chromatic (983) on 2006.08.29 3:36 (#49642) Homepage Journal

I don't hate:

my $foo = warn(sum(length($obj->attrs];

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- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by VSarkiss (704)
  
  I guess it's true that language designers end up reinventing Lisp :-). The square "superbracket" was introduced in Interlisp in the mid-60's. You can take a look at Steele and Gabriel's "The Evolution of Lisp" paper [psu.edu].
  - Re: (Score:1)
    
    by chromatic (983)
    
    I'm a mature poet. I completely and knowingly stole that idea from Lisp.
    
    (Of course, mentioning "poet" in the same context as Dick Gabriel is a good trick for other reasons.)

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