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It opens the gates of hell and corruption! Since every parenthesis has its own & unique match, you need to find the one missing its other half, and add the correct one to the correct place.

Every parenthesis in Lisp world is unique like a snowflake, and they come in pairs.

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> every parenthesis has its own & unique match

I think you just discovered parenthesis entanglement theory :)

Parenthetically, parenthetical entanglement is consistent with duality, so at least our theories are consistent at a grand scale and do not necessitate any unified field theory (at this point).

No rainbowbrackets in their IDE I take it?

They are probably using VT320s from some remote/hidden locations. I don't expect a state of the art gigabit satellite connection on a remote island.

Unless their foundation air-dropped them a couple of Starlink units alongside their seasonal food and goods supply run.

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