Being the one who asked the question and satisfied with the answers, I agree. I never expected a question like this, about one of the oldest programming languages, to generate so many responses and discussions. Funny...
On Aug 29, 9:46 pm, lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca wrote: > My rough estimate is that more than 40 replies to that thread heave been > generated up to now (I deleted the 28 ones without reading them after reading > a couple of replies to the original post). > > Hmmm,,, I am about to think that we could have powered a small town > with all that electrical nerve impulse that has been spent on this subject > not withstanding the electricity spent in wires and servers to spread > this thread every where around the planet. > > And yet no consensus has been reached... maybe we should drop the subject > for now ? > > Luc P. > > Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote .. > > > > > You could do what one of my "modern language" (python) students did. > > Put the open parens at the end of the line and it looks like python! > > > ( > > defun foo ( > > arg1 arg2 arg3 ) ( > > let ( > > tmp1 tmp2 ) ( > > firstFunction arg1 ) ( > > secondFunction arg2 ) ( > > thirdFunction arg3 ))) > > > auggghhh! my eyes! my eyes!!!! :-) > > > Back in the pre-history while I worked in the "machine room" > > a student came to me with FORTRAN code. He discovered that FORTRAN > > ignored spaces so he has a solid block of code from column 8 to > > column 71 that went on for pages. > > > There is no disputing taste. Fortunately, lisp doesn't care. > > > Since it is still "in the early days" of Clojure it might be a > > good idea to follow the style set in clojure core.clj. You never > > know when your code might become a candidate for inclusion and > > the last thing you want is to be rejected for style. > > > Tim Daly > > > kyle smith wrote: > > > On Aug 19, 12:08 pm, Brian Goslinga <quickbasicg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Here is another trick that works for me in Emacs: delete most of the > > >> stack of closing parens, and then spam the ) key until the Emacs > > >> matches it to the desired opening paren. > > > > this. > > > -- > > 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
