misnest

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ nest

Verb

misnest (third-person singular simple present misnests, present participle misnesting, simple past and past participle misnested)

1. To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
   • 1985 November 12, Glenn A. Hart, “A Smorgasbord Of Fox & Geller Enhancements For dBASE III”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 23, page 239:

     dUTIL can assist in the location of certain types of logic errors, primarily those involving misnesting of logical constructs or missing symbols.

   • 1992, NeXT Computer, Inc, NeXTSTEP Development Tools and Techniques: Release 3, page 12-30:

     In this case, the problem is easily solved by the same parentheses that ought to be used to prevent misnesting of arithmetic operations.

   • 1999, Ann Navarro, Todd Stauffer, HTML by Example, page 314:

     Are there tags in places where they're not allowed? Have you tried to misnest tags anywhere ?

   • 2013, Keith Lee, Pro Objective-C, page 88:

     Improper use can cause misnesting, operator precedence problems, duplication of side effects, and other problems.