[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

Dale Vaillancourt dalev at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Feb 15 07:54:33 EST 2007


I haven't seen a page like that, but Shriram used that transition in  
his LL1 talk while he was explaining the DFA macro.  Googling "Swine  
Before Perl" yields the slides.  -Dale

On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:

> I recall seeing a while back a page explaining how an experienced  
> Scheme programmer no longer "sees" parentheses-- he showed an  
> example several times, talking about it and painting the parens in  
> lighter and lighter shades of gray.
>
> Do any of you remember seeing this?  I haven't thought of a good  
> way of searching for it.  I don't remember what the example was.
>
> --Mitch
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