[notaddicted]

I think the aversion is because the way that they line up visually is the opposite of the way that they are matched by the parser. I think everyone needs a dose of LISP to get over any problems they have with any frequency or arrangement of brackets/parens/braces. Anyway, having a function that compares two structs and returns 0 or 1 with a printf out to stderr is just gross in my opinion.