Hi, I actually think that this is a really important question and for me despite the fact that I *love* Clojure my answer is NO, i don't like the syntax.
To me it represents a significant barrier for reading. When I read an imperative OOP language I instinctively "see" through the code what the author wants to do. With LISP the first instructions of a code block are those that are most inside (nested) so looking at the ouside instructions I can't figure out why are they there because I don't know what is going into them as arguments. I have to follow the parens inside and then bactrack back. One particular rant is that to make the code more readable I use lots of let bindings to make the subexpressions named. And here I hate the fact that let-s create another parens and indentation level. Many of my functions have let statements so in order to write a function I have one function-level indentation and one let-level indentation. I know that it makes sense but coming from a Ruby world I like when I have to do more typing to achieve some kind of a special case and less or no typing to get the default case, which is here not true. I know that it is crazy and appalling but I actually like the syntax that Clarity "preprocessor" is doing: https://github.com/one-more-minute/clarity Though I agree that using it as a macro is kinda crazy and overall it is not worth the effort. M. Dne pondělí, 12. srpna 2013 9:52:53 UTC+2 Răzvan Rotaru napsal(a): > > Hi, > > I'm curious about the general opinion on the Clojure syntax, whether > people actually like it or just use it because it provides macros. So I > would like to ask you to participate in a poll. Thank You. > > Here's the link: > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GSgfkeThpUYlgFVzhhNIgA1JbTilu6S9eudq_Sbxl34/viewform > > Răzvan > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
