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troxy on Sept 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

Do you know why you have slightly different numbers of (){}[] characters? In C or C++ shouldn't those all be paired up to match?

zeteo on Sept 9, 2011 [–]

It can probably be accounted for by comments (e.g. people sometimes comment out half a block). Although the comments should be left out, so as not to mix the C and the English.

alextgordon on Sept 9, 2011 | [–]

Also string and character literals. It's common to write something like

    if (c == '{')

and not need to test for the matching one.

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