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by simoncion 34 days ago
Additionally, file segments [0] written with a grammar that uses scope-defining character pairs survive round trips through email, chat, the paste buffers of a series of less-than-maximally-careful coworkers, etc. etc. etc. much, much better than those written with a grammar that uses whitespace to define scope.

<strike>Ask me how I know.</strike>

[0] sections? snippets? fragments? Hopefully you get what I'm trying to say here.