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by lisper 2795 days ago
> You don't get that in a C-like syntax.

No, instead you get something like );}]);) except that that's usually split up over several lines.

BTW, it's pretty easy to tweak Lisp's syntax so that your parens don't get so deeply nested. See

https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.l...

for an example.