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praptak
on Feb 22, 2019
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A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing M...
A silly trick question: are balanced parentheses expressions palindromes?
noir_lord
on Feb 22, 2019
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No because () reversed is )(
pygy_
on Feb 22, 2019
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Also, they are not necessarily mirror images:
(()())()
noir_lord
on Feb 22, 2019
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Yep but I went for the simplest case that answers the question.
pygy_
on Feb 22, 2019
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Indeed, my comment was more "even if you count `()` as a visual palindrome, it doesn't work".
agumonkey
on Feb 22, 2019
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should we call these symmetromes ?
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