On Thursday, March 8, 2012 9:33:04 PM UTC-5, puzzler wrote: > > I love these ideas. I think your final comment is especially insightful. > I have no problem writing Clojure code, I just find it unnecessarily taxing > to read it. The idea of separating the two, and possibly having a > read-mode is an absolutely fascinating idea. In some sense, Marginalia is > already a good positive step in this direction. The first time I ran > Marginalia on my code I was astonished at how much more readable it was to > have the comments in a separate column alongside the code, rather than > interrupting the code itself. It makes me wonder how many other things > could have such a positive, dramatic effect. >
I think you struck it there, especially wrt marginalia. I've been wanting for a long time for some kind of code editor where ancillary things like comments/tests/contracts/examples may be displayed in a more appropriate manner, so that our code may be the star of our screen, while still being appropriately accompanied on demand by those comments/tests/contracts/examples. You're right that putting comments in a different column (which is scrolled synchronously) helps. Wouldn't be nice if that column could be replaced anytime with tests/contracts/examples/etc.? And with a larger monitor, multiple synced columns could be displayed. That said, to me, it's important that all of this is still editable at all times. I don't often read my own code in marginalia for this reason. Of course, you may just as well tell me that's what emacs allows with its buffers and swank-clojure & slime. But anyway, emacs' way of doing it is much more an *on demand* thing, and much less pervasive for now. I feel we could do quite a bit more with those tools. -- 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
