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Re: Lisp code formatting....
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: Lisp code formatting.... |
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Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:25:47 +0100 |
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Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> writes:
> Since there are so many parentheses in Lisp code, devoting a line to each
> close paren wastes lots of space and clutters up the definition.
> Parentheses tend to be viewed as noise, so they shouldn't be emphasized so
> much.
Yeah, I find it so difficult to get the message across to people that
neither Lisp, with so many parentheses, nor Python, which much fewer
parentheses, are really problematic. When reading, you read the
indentation.
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.