My rough estimate is that more than 40 replies to that thread heave been generated up to now (I deleted the 28 ones without reading them after reading a couple of replies to the original post).
Hmmm,,, I am about to think that we could have powered a small town with all that electrical nerve impulse that has been spent on this subject not withstanding the electricity spent in wires and servers to spread this thread every where around the planet. And yet no consensus has been reached... maybe we should drop the subject for now ? Luc P. Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote .. > You could do what one of my "modern language" (python) students did. > Put the open parens at the end of the line and it looks like python! > > ( > defun foo ( > arg1 arg2 arg3 ) ( > let ( > tmp1 tmp2 ) ( > firstFunction arg1 ) ( > secondFunction arg2 ) ( > thirdFunction arg3 ))) > > auggghhh! my eyes! my eyes!!!! :-) > > Back in the pre-history while I worked in the "machine room" > a student came to me with FORTRAN code. He discovered that FORTRAN > ignored spaces so he has a solid block of code from column 8 to > column 71 that went on for pages. > > There is no disputing taste. Fortunately, lisp doesn't care. > > Since it is still "in the early days" of Clojure it might be a > good idea to follow the style set in clojure core.clj. You never > know when your code might become a candidate for inclusion and > the last thing you want is to be rejected for style. > > Tim Daly > > kyle smith wrote: > > On Aug 19, 12:08 pm, Brian Goslinga <quickbasicg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Here is another trick that works for me in Emacs: delete most of the > >> stack of closing parens, and then spam the ) key until the Emacs > >> matches it to the desired opening paren. > >> > > > > this. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first > post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
