Thanks for the input, Plinio. If the community jumps to the conclusion that I'm arrogant, because I like to work in style that's clear & works for me, then I won't be surprised if they don't offer assistance in the future.
>From my point of view, as long as they receive my contributions or requests for assistance in a form that's palatable to them, it's not anyone's business how I code on a daily basis. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Plínio Balduino <pbaldu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan > > Please accept my two cents. > > "I prefer the indentation; it makes more sense to me." > > No, he didn't misunderstand, sorry. > > Anyway, Batsov's Style Guide is an awesome resource, even though you won't > follow the items ipsis literis, is good to understand how to work and think > in the 'Clojure Way'. > > For example, when one is new to Ruby, it's normal to find the for > statement there. Once one gets used to 'Ruby Style', the each method > becomes the standard. > > An example that I used with my team some days ago: > > In Portuguese (our native language) we use nouns before adjective. "Um > dia quente". > > In English we use nouns after adjective. "A hot day". > > Even if you swap the order in Portuguese (um quente dia) or in English (a > day hot), a native speaker will understand with more or less > effort. Syntactically it's not wrong, semantically is OK, but the > construction it's not in the 'Portuguese way' or in the 'English way'. > > So unless you don't mind to speak with yourself all the time, please try > to understand and follow the rules and the way of your new environment. > After all you don't want to be seen as an arrogant guy or as someone who > doesn't want to learn just because your way makes more sense to you. > > Please don't understand I'm judging you. I have a very bad impression of > LISPs communities in general, but the Clojure community is highly > newcomer-friendly and the other guys who tried to help you, for example, > are high skilled and very busy professionals. In any other community (I'm > cofounder of JS, Clojure and Ruby communities) you woudn't find that good > will to help, unfortunately. > > Sorry for the completely off-topic, best regards and welcome to community. > > Plínio > > > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Dan Campbell <dcwhat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> "As long as you’re prepared to be told this every time you show your code >> to people, that’s up to you." >> >> I think you misunderstood the response. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Dan Campbell <dcwhat...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry man, but I'm not willing to change my personal coding style. It's >>> not a matter of getting used to Clojure. I'm not an expert on it yet, but >>> I've been studying and working with it, for a little over a year. I prefer >>> the indentation; it makes more sense to me. >>> >>> >>> As long as you’re prepared to be told this every time you show your code >>> to people, that’s up to you. >>> >>> Your image, though, doesn't reflect my intended indentation style for >>> lisp code. It looks like some reformatting took place. >>> >>> >>> Of course - I reformatted it to match the Clojure community style. The >>> image was to show rainbow parentheses, specifically. >>> >>> If there are other styles out there, that you know about, I'm willing to >>> take a look at them. Although the traditional lisp style with multiple >>> adjacent parentheses doesn't work for me, there might be other styles worth >>> looking at. >>> >>> >>> All the style guides will follow that style - that’s how Lisp is written >>> :) >>> >>> Here’s the most "standard" Clojure style guide, based on the style in >>> Clojure books, and Clojure/core’s own library style guide: >>> >>> https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide >>> >>> Thanks for pointing out the error in the if statement. You're correct. >>> >>> >>> Glad I was able to help. >>> >>> Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN >>> An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ >>> >>> "Perfection is the enemy of the good." >>> -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 a topic in the >>> Google Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/GFOXhZKooyI/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/GFOXhZKooyI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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