You can put the docstring after the args, but the tooling won't pick it up.
--Ashton Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 20, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Eli Naeher <enae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> And on a client project recently, it was decided (when I wasn't around) that >> the arguments to a function should always be on a newline: >> >> (defn foo >> [x] >> (+ x x)) >> >> Instead of: >> >> (defn foo [x] >> (+ x x)) > > Like you I prefer the arguments on the same line as the defn. > > Of course, when a docstring is present (and IMO there should nearly always be > a docstring), this is not possible. Does anyone here know why in Clojure it > was decided to move the docstring from its traditional-in-Lisp location after > the argument list? Perhaps it's just a question of what I'm used to, but it > feels very awkward to me. I like to be able to see the arglist while I'm > reading the docstring so that I can understand to which arguments it's > referring, but in Clojure with a long docstring often times the arglist is > not even visible on the screen. > > -Eli > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
