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misnest en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + nest.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
   • dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols. 1985 November 12, Glenn A. Hart, “A Smorgasbord Of Fox & Geller Enhancements For dBASE III”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 23, page 239:
   • Are there tags in places where they're not allowed? Have you tried to misnest tags anywhere ? 1999, Ann Navarro, Todd Stauffer, HTML by Example, page 314:
   • In this case, the problem is easily solved by the same parentheses that ought to be used to prevent misnesting of arithmetic operations. 1992, NeXT Computer, Inc, NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3, page 12-30:
   • Improper use can cause misnesting, operator precedence problems, duplication of side effects, and other problems. 2013, Keith Lee, Pro Objective-C, page 88:

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