they actually pay me for this

[topaz]

Highly valuable information I have learned today:

eval { foo }; is permissible syntax.
eval { foo } is not.

I want those six hours of my life back, goddamnit.

I think omegabeth is right.  This is clearly all because Mercury is in retrograde.

Comments

[noeltheone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, the last time I did anything in Lisp was before dirt, so I just went for the cheap joke.

And of course I balanced my parens. I'd hate to have to trace the bug if I didn't. :-)

[khedron.livejournal.com]

Whoa... Lisp predates dirt? That strongly implies that it's older than quartz, silicon, and all possible bases for electronic computing. XKCD was right? (http://xkcd.com/224/)

(And that brings us back around to the topic of the post again, I think.)