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Re: Parentheses, Quotes, and Parliament
Posted By: codeman38, on host 209.172.224.34
Date: Friday, October 12, 2001, at 09:07:30
In Reply To: Re: Femi-nazis and Parliment posted by Faux Pas on Friday, October 12, 2001, at 08:23:42:

> Where there is an open parenthesis, there must be a closing parenthesis. If you (nest (your (parenthesis))), you must (close ((and open) each) one). If you don't (do (this and learn (how) to write) code, it will break.
>
> Just like that last sentence would (if it was code).

Heh. We were talking about similar things in RinkChat a couple nights ago, and how many programmers follow the habit of putting periods and commas outside of the quotation marks. It's more logical, after all-- and it makes a *huge* difference when it comes to writing computer code.

There's a big difference, after all, between
/ / / / cout << "Hello world";
and
/ / / / / cout << "Hello world;"
namely, that one will actually compile, while the other will only lead to numerous errors.

-- codeman"and nested 'quotation "marks"' are another 'issue' entirely"38

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