It's almost purely community convention that has been adopted from Lisp.

You may be interested in this link:

http://gregslepak.posterous.com/on-lisps-readability

There is much discussion about this topic there.

Cheers,
Greg

On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:09 AM, michele wrote:

> Wouldn't that make it easier to keep track of them.
> 
> Example:
> 
> (defn myfn-a [a b]
>  (if (zero? b)
>    a
>    (recur
>      (afn (bfn (...)) a)
>      (dec b))))
> 
> (defn myfn-b [a b]
>  (if (zero? b)
>    a
>    (recur
>      (afn (bfn (...)) a)
>      (dec b)
>    )
>  )
> )
> 
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