On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:50:38AM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 2/5/18 1:27 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 02:34:31PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via > > Digitalmars-d wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't have a hard time with braces. It tends to be worse with > > > parentheses. Generally these are indented properly, and not }}}}} > > > all on one line. > > > > Wait till you see Lisp code. :-P > > I still have nightmares from my scheme class in college... Literally > the professor would be up at the whiteboard scribbling a scheme > function, and at the end, he would draw a whole bunch of closing > parentheses in a row, reciting the opening parentheses for each one > "car, cdr, ..." > > I also have seen people's code who DID put all their closing braces on > one line. It was... awful. [...]
Apparently it's a prevailing style for Lisp and Lisp dialects like Scheme. Random example (this is in Guile, a Scheme dialect, quoted from open source code): (define (match-predicate obj alist) (if (null? alist) "Unknown type" (if (apply (caar alist) obj) (cdar alist) (match-predicate obj (cdr alist))))) The only way I can keep my sanity while editing this sort of code is vim's jump-to-match feature. T -- "If you're arguing, you're losing." -- Mike Thomas