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Frowns in parenthetical usage? Why not:

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Re^3: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (Russian emoticons )))
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 01, 2015 at 18:42 UTC
    > Why not ...

    ( psst ... compatibility! ;)

    FWIW a Russian friend once send me many "serious" mails full of unbalanced parentheses "noise", till I understood that smileys have neither eyes nor nose over there! )

    In the end its a question of habit and standards.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

    PS: Je suis Charlie!

      Maybe Russians just write in Lisp by default))))))