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Have you ever had parentheses fatigue (you know, it's when you're reading some forum very similar to this one, and someone makes a really long post, and in the middle of one of the sentences opens a left parenthesis and starts a sub-paragraph inside this, usually without any full-stops - all one sentence like, and in the confusion caused by this, ends up never closing the parentheses and leaving the reader somewhat "dazed" for some reason, feeling like there's something wrong, sometimes having to go all the way back to the beginning of the parentheses and read the whole thing over from there, so it'll make sense again, as if there is a certain mind switch caused by those left parentheses, where you go into "this is a small comment that will end within a few words" mode. It's frustrating.

I get that feeling while reading your post  

Quote from: Yoni on August 19, 2004, 10:14 AM
Have you ever had parentheses fatigue (you know, it's when you're reading some forum very similar to this one, and someone makes a really long post, and in the middle of one of the sentences opens a left parenthesis and starts a sub-paragraph inside this, usually without any full-stops - all one sentence like, and in the confusion caused by this, ends up never closing the parentheses and leaving the reader somewhat "dazed" for some reason, feeling like there's something wrong, sometimes having to go all the way back to the beginning of the parentheses and read the whole thing over from there, so it'll make sense again, as if there is a certain mind switch caused by those left parentheses, where you go into "this is a small comment that will end within a few words" mode. It's frustrating.

Yes.  I agree.

No, never.

The missing parenthesis was the least of that post's grammatical problems.

Quote from: Arta[vL] on August 19, 2004, 09:24 PM
The missing parenthesis was the least of that post's grammatical problems.

You stole my post! Bastard!

I find it's worse when I'm programming, compounded statements always confuse me.  I have a tendency to use nested if's instead of and's.