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		Arrgh on July 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 7 is now available > I like being a pedantic programmer. Try Scala! (So do I ;)

lanstein on July 28, 2011 [–]

shouldn't that be

Try Scala! (So do I ;))

then?

qntm on July 29, 2011 | | [–]

Just backslash-escape the internal right-paren.

   (So do I ;\))

vog on July 29, 2011 | | [–]

Indeed!

BTW, this issue with emoticons and parenthesis was also subject of an XKCD comic: http://www.xkcd.com/541/

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