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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: More (ad nauseum) on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 01:07:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  7 01:07:30 1986
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In article <108@pembina.alberta.UUCP>, cdshaw@alberta.UUCP writes:
>In article <7125@boring.mcvax.UUCP> guido@boring.uucp (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>>The difference between misplaced braces bugs and misplaced indentation
>>bugs is that misplaced (often: missing) braces are hard to find.
>
>No they aren't. Use an editor which finds matching braces. They are 
>common and very reliable.
>Chris Shaw    cdshaw@alberta

Ah, almost very reliable :-).  Vi does this, but I had an awful time
once with a fairly long C function (in someone else's code) which just
would not compile on the machine I tried it on; kept getting strange
error messages about bogus identifiers.  Well, finally I idly put my cursor
on the top curly brace of that function and hit '%'.  Vi beeped at me!  "HMMM,
no match!" I said; "so that's why the code wouldn't compile!".

Well, I went to the bottom of the code, put the cursor on the curly brace
there, and hit '%' again.  It matched with the second curly brace in from
the top.  I start moving in, matching pair against pair, for several iter-
ations.  Then '%' put me right in the middle of a printf statement:

	(void) printf("junkjunkjunk{trashtrashtrash\n");
                                   ^
                                   |-- see the "hidden" curly brace?

Oh, well... *klunk*
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