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tbodt • Edited

Back in the day, before paren matchers were a thing, people would stare at their Lisp code, carefully counting: 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0 for ((()())). If you didn't end up with zero, there was a problem somewhere.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Yup, that's what my algorithm basically does :)