On December 20, 2014 at 4:30:41 PM, Timothy Baldridge (tbaldri...@gmail.com) wrote: I recently browsed parts of that guide and was surprised how many bits I disagreed with. Especially around the "one space in these rare cases" bits. Not that that is a bad thing it's just my personal opinion that everything should always use two space indentation. Can you elaborate on “one space in these rare cases”. I can think of just one case (arguments following function/macro name on the next line) of such indentation and this is something rooted in Lisp’s DNA. :-)
And on a client project recently, it was decided (when I wasn't around) that the arguments to a function should always be on a newline: (defn foo [x] (+ x x)) Instead of: (defn foo [x] (+ x x)) I disagree with this idea also, but whatever, it's just style. It's not like I suddenly can't read Clojure code since it's in the wrong style. With so many different views, I think it's unwise to lock any editor into any style. Instead give users options, and update the Clojure Style Guide with the following (paraphrased) quote from Pirates of the Caribbean: "this Code of Styling is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules." This is the final rule https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide#common-sense :-) That said, we should probably mention something similar in the overture. PEP-8 has something similar https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds Timothy On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Fluid Dynamics <a2093...@trbvm.com> wrote: A way to hint indentation to the tooling would be nice. Perhaps a metadata on vars such as {:body-indent #{then-clause else-clause}} that could tell tools to indent an "if" this way: (if condition then-clause else-clause) instead of this way: (if condition then-clause else-clause) rather than the current ad-hoc special-casing that seems to be used at present. (Ad hoc special-casing would still be needed for special forms, including "if", but this could be used with macros and perhaps with functions if someone wanted that.) (Formal specification for that suggestion: the metadata key :body-indent should have a value that is a set of symbols, which are some subset of the symbols appearing in arglists of the bound macro/function. Editors and pretty-printers and other tools would take this as a hint to indent the corresponding parameters only two spaces, if on lines of their own, rather than to align with parameters inline with the operator on the form's first line.) -- 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. -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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 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.
