The concept of the One-Style-To-Rule-Them-All is just childish. It is akin to the enforcement of school uniforms, and in many ways perhaps worse.
The imposition of aesthetic preferences upon others is likely to result in the following: - A counter-reaction, such as argument, insults, "flame wars" - Animosity amongst members of the group - Noise on the channel - The fostering of a militant, "prickly" community (i.e. the one that LISP is famous for) Clojure is an opportunity to depart from all of that. - Greg On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Greg wrote: > Can we please drop this? > > This is going to go nowhere fast, like other thread on closing parens on new > lines. > > Whoever wrote this did a terrible job, at least WRT that topic. > > Not only did he misrepresent the trailing parenthesis style (not all > parenthesis must be trailed), but the so-called rationale given for choosing > stacked parens over trailed parens is laughably devoid of any rational > thought: > >> Rationale: The parentheses grow lonely if their closing brackets are >> all kept separated and segregated. > > > - Greg > > On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: > >> This is the best I've seen so I thought I'd share >> (pulled from a post on the guile mailing list) >> >> http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt >> >> (note: the attached copy opens in Org-mode in Emacs for easier reading) >> >> -- >> 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<style.txt> > > -- > 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 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
