> Find me a person who fluently used paredit that stopped and reverted back to > manual parenthesis manipulation.
/me raises my hand. Structural editing was useful in LispVM (on IBM mainframes) where the display was 12 lines by 40 characters. It might also be useful for the iPad lisping app. If your IDE uses 80% of your display for buttons, lines, and icons I can see where it would be useful, since most of the text area is gone. However, I've been programming in lisp for 42 years on everything from punched cards to mega-displays. I find that keeping structure and counting parens is like finishing a thought. It just happens. I don't remember the last time I had a paren-balance bug. I've spent the last 13 years rewriting and refactoring Axiom which is 1.2 million lines of lisp code so I have a fair sized sample as a test case. I find that programming occurs "in my head" and that the computer is only useful for recording the results. For me, smart editing and IDEs get in my way, like a helpful newbie in a metal shop. Then again I don't use IDEs. If it works for you, go for it. Tim -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
