[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

Alec alec at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Feb 15 08:50:52 EST 2007


This reminds me of an emacs hack I saw a while ago that does something
similar (in that it makes parenthesis disappear and uses lots of gray):

http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png

-Alec

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:26:28PM -0500, 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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