The main downside of such an approach is that if you copy and paste your code to a new context in which it has a different level of indenting, it's very easy to screw things up. You then have no way to re-indent the code without fully analyzing and understanding the *semantics* of the code, because the only syntactic cues (the whitespace) is now invalid and can't be trusted.
Lispers tend to like the fact that the parentheses can be used by the computer to auto-format and auto-indent your code, and parens help ensure that everything is grouped correctly (e.g., when you put your cursor over a paren, it shows you the other paren that goes with it) -- then once it is formatted, they use the indenting levels to understand their code and ignore the parentheses. But it's comforting to know the parentheses are there should the code ever get moved around or edited. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Martin Coxall <pseudo.m...@me.com> wrote: > My question is: why would such a scheme work/not work, and why would/would > not it be desirable? > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
