Comment by al_borland
6 hours ago
I was in college when XHTML was all the rage and everything we wrote had to pass validation. I still get uncomfortable adding breaks without closing them.
6 hours ago
I was in college when XHTML was all the rage and everything we wrote had to pass validation. I still get uncomfortable adding breaks without closing them.
Younger but on the same boat. Nothing reasonable, but this just feels unmatched. It itches exactly like an (unclosed parenthesis
There used to be a commenter here who would end all his comments with a closing paren, even though there had not been an opening paren. It led to a surprising number of flamewars! )
Edit: hmm, I couldn't really find any flamewars, but it did lead to objections:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765943 (Nov 2012)
Hilarious. To fix this, one would have needed to put an open parenthesis in a sibling comment and hope to get upvoted more than the comment with the closing parent.
It's a cultural difference thing: https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/13142/what-do-or...
That's demonic.