The wisdom of Chinese philosophers

[pne]

Digging through some old source code of mine, I found this humorous comment:

#   Revision 1.8  01/10/31  15:57:40  15:57:40  pne (Philip Newton)
#   Wer eine geschweifte Klammer aufmacht, muss sie auch wieder zumachen.
#                            -- Lao-tse (568-624)
#   

(Translation: He who opens a curly brace must close it again, too.)

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I had just that problem today! I'd somehow used a ) instead of a } and was convinced that perl was lying! It wasn't helped that it was reporting the error two lines further down and that (as far as I could see) all my braces were closed!:p Took me about 10 minutes to figure it out!

[bride.livejournal.com]

Heh, this is why I've always typed the open and close characters at the same time and then cursor over to type stuff in between =) I do that with quotes too.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

An interesting plan! What puzzled me was that I was editing some old (working) code and was positive I hadn't touched that line!:p Bizarre...

Re:

[bride.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a weird cryptic error message or an error on a line you didn't touch or is absolutelypositively correct usually means you did something duh just a tad above that =)

[bride.livejournal.com]

Confucious says: "Google before you speak." =)