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in thread When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

> 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!

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Re^4: When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you: (Russian emoticons )))
by MilanorTSW (Beadle) on Mar 25, 2015 at 15:11 UTC
    Maybe Russians just write in Lisp by default))))))