On Sunday 30 November 2008 07:06, Daniel Renfer wrote: > Since it's pretty much the topic, has anyone ever seen this: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/
One thing I'll say is that I can't see myself _ever_ getting behind a notation where white-space is significant. The so-called "semicolon inference" in Groovy bugs me endlessly (in real-life programming, not just 'cause I'm aware it's there). And there have been complaints about the Scala counterpart on its mailing lists. Wasn't FORTRAN lesson enough about the mistake of giving syntactic significance to blanks beyond being simple token separators? Frankly, I don't see the problem with S-Expressions as we've known them for so long. I think they're beautiful. All non-trivial programs are complex and require tool support for their creation and even more for later comprehension. Once you accept that, then you realize that a uniform notation like the S-Expression is just something that requires support from the authoring and analysis tools. Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
