Wow, 40+ messages about indents. Did y'all just finish a project milestone? ;)
BTW I agree with Eli. It's weird that "if" indents differently than "when", "unless", "case", "cond", "match". I can't remember the name, what was that DrRacket add-on for efficient sexpr editing? On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Richard Cleis <rcl...@mac.com> wrote: > Perhaps this is related to some of what you are saying: For years I put > double spaces after every initial element that had more purpose than a basic > function (define, cond, let, etc.) I wish I had time to make a formatter do > that, because I still like it. > > RAC > On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ray Racine <ray.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah yes, re-playing back those early scheme days in my head. As all do and > did, I wrested with parens, and recursion. Recursion did finally click and > even now 1/2 the time I find myself "looping" with a recursive function in > Scala. I don't give it second thought, it does confuse the hell out of > others however who read the code. Even funnier, I now think how come they > can't seem to "get it". But it did kick my ass in the day. > But parens .... I did finally make a separate peace with parens, but in a > very unique manner. It turned out it wasn't the parens after all it was the > pseudo special forms/keywords + parens that created the dissonance. > As a joke, literally two beers bored as hell on Friday night > what-the-hell-as-a-joke exercise, I used emacs to redefine each of the > common special-form / keywords to single greek letters. lambda -> > lambda-char, define -> lower-delta, if -> lower-iota, begin -> lower-rho, > let -> lower-beta, set! -> lower-sigma, 'and', 'or', 'not' -> the single > char logic symbols, #t #f -> top and bottom symbols, etc. > I read rho means 'r'un. I read beta as 'b'ind. I read sigma as 's'et! etc. > And a few years later, I'm still coding in joke mode. > Sigma (set!) is a bright red char. All others in chars in a light blue. I > use a black background, and parens are in a light grey, you almost can't see > them. I constantly let emacs indent and 'tab' lines into place. In other > words, indentation guides first, parens second and as the last resort when I > get 'lost'. > All other text is bright white on black. Nesting is more symmetrical and > cleaner. I'm sure everyone out there will just hate it. > So where am I going with this. Just tossing out the thought that its not > the parens per se, but parens combined with the core forms which are the > issue. Particularly: define, let, begin, if. > Very curious if its just an odd twist to my mental makeup, I'm slightly > dyslexic as well, or some others might end up seeing it the same way. > Skeptical?? I believe DrRacket added delta (for 'define') and lambda greek > char capability long ago. May have even been driven from an earlier posting > by me on this very topic to the list a number of years back. Complete the > experiment by adding single greek chars aliases for 'let', 'begin', et al. > You're probably wondering by now, so without further ado, Ladies and > Gentleman I give you "Funky Racket > Syntax" http://imagebin.ca/view/s6SHn7c.html > I tried to actually pick "bad" examples. I'm sure you'll all agree I > succeeded. > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
