On Tue, 14 May 2013 14:27:09 -0700, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <c...@users.sf.net> wrote:
> I think code with \\ at line ends would be annoying to maintain, for the > same reason multi-line #defines are in C... > Personally, I'd just use parens and/or avoid overly complex loop forms by > breaking them into steps / helper functions... Okay. That's where I'm leaning, too. But if there are last-minute discussions that need to be raised, now would be the time. I'm posting this question on readable-discuss, not the srfi-110 mailing list, because I can find no cases where this kind of thing would plausibly occur in Scheme. Even in Common Lisp, the "loop" construct is... well... atypical. (Feel free to say "ugly".) As I re-read the list structure for long Common Lisp loops, it actually doesn't look too bad when does as a list. Or should I say, it's no worse than usual :-), and even slightly better. There might be a case for ignoring leading "!" inside lists, if these are more common. However, that'd make it impossible to just reuse an underlying read implementation, and that seems undesirable. --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
