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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Would you really rather see <\Foo> than )?

There's a reason why most popular languages use } rather than end if or fi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.