"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I understood correctly, it would misindent quoted lists whose first > element is a function. Lists of functions are not rare (hooks, for > example). > > The incorrect indentation in those cases won't be horrible. > > However, if we can develop a good convention for distinguishing the > two cases (quoted code, and quoted non-code), we could get the right > results every time.
I'd somewhat visually prefer '( function and function ) vs '(function of something) I seems more readable than your proposal '(function and function) ' (function of something) and it also does not need to also take a look at ` and maybe even (quote ...) (which is the rendition of printed Lisp expressions). Of course, this proposal has the disadvantage that the probably more common case of a function (or non-function!) list needs extra formatting, so it is probably not useful in practice. However, if we _combine_ both proposals with an added criterion, we might arrive at the following rule set: '( func and func ) is a list in any context ' (func of something) is a quoted function call in any context '(func maybe) is a list, except in macro definitions where it is a quoted function. Maybe this is too complicated. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
