From: Sean Proctor <sproctor AT ccs DOT neu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: How about bracket matching???
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:01:55 +0400, "Alexei A. Frounze"
<alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:

>Well, what you discuss is really a taste of a programmer.
>
>But everyone of you has noticed that matching open and close brackets is a real
>pain, if your program has up to 10 nested cycles/loops or even composite
>operators. Especially if this part of source doesn't fit entirely to the screen.
>
>What do you suggest here, huh?
>
>IMO RHIDE should have a bracket matching feature. I've seen it in Watcom C IDE,
>it's nice and easy to use, but some hot keys should be used for that instead of
>mouse click.
>
>What do you think?

in my opinion if you have 10 nested loops, etc, you need to break your
program down a little in to functions... =)

Sean