On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 12:10:00 PM UTC-4, Artur Malabarba wrote: > > > This scheme won't play nicely with forms with variable numbers of > special > > arguments. > > True, but I've never seen anyone indent specially these optional > arguments. For instance, every defn I see (including clojure.core), is > indented like this: > > (defn foo > [x] > (+ x 3)) > > (defn bar > "Adds four to x." > [x] > (+ x 4)) > > In addition, actually supporting this in a general way will make the > indent spec more complicated (you would have to specify predicates or > something to determine whether an optional argument is presen or not). > This would make it harder for people to write an indent spec and > harder for the editors/tools to support it. > > However, there's another option. Instead of supporting optional > arguments in a general way, we can say something like this: > > An indent spec can also be the keyword :defn, which means this form > should be structured like a defn. >
That'll work for defn, and for thin wrappers around defn, but it's a step back down the road toward loads of special-casing... -- 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.
