> Too bad. If you wanted to focus on the trailing-parens (which you clearly did > in that article), you should have kept everything else the same between your > examples.
Perhaps I should, then I wouldn't have to respond to your emails. :-p As I've said multiple times now, now indentation width does help readability, but adding trailing parenthesis on top of that can increase it further. >From an information theoretic point of view, it should be obvious. Whereas on >the one hand you only have one bit of information to judge what function >you're in (just increasing indentation width), on the other you have two bits >(indentation width + trailing parenthesis). > Closing the comments after people started to question you on this wasn't a > good move, either (otherwise I'd be commenting there rather than here). Oh goodie, it seems like it was a good move after all. :-P - Greg On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Michael Gardner wrote: > On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Greg wrote: > >> On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Michael Gardner wrote: >> >>> On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Greg wrote: >>> >>>> http://gregslepak.posterous.com/on-lisps-readability >>> >>> That article is dishonest. >> >> Speaking as the author, I'm a bit offended. > > Too bad. If you wanted to focus on the trailing-parens (which you clearly did > in that article), you should have kept everything else the same between your > examples. > > If you wanted to comment on indentation as well, you should have (a) given it > equal prominence in your discussion, (b) used separate code examples for > trailing-parens vs indentation, and/or (c) made a separate post. > > Closing the comments after people started to question you on this wasn't a > good move, either (otherwise I'd be commenting there rather than here). > > -- > 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 -- 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
