Having worked with a number of languages sensitive to white spaces including "magic" columns reminiscent of the paper cards, I honestly do not find any sex-appeal in a syntax relying on spaces, line breaks and indentation.
It's error prone, errors are harder to detect, and breaks the tool chain. As far as this alternate proposal, I find the end result ugly at best. It does not favor a compact coding style which I have chosen years ago after stopping using the older languages above which did not allow me to be concise. Mixing both styles together does not do anything to dissipate this repulsion feeling. Frankly, I do not catch it, I have been working in at least a dozen languages and half a dozen assemblers dating back to Fortran and Cobol, older Lisps,... Working I said, not as a hobby. I never tried to bend a language to my previous habits. I adapted and made my playground within the limits imposed by the language, that's it. Are these discussions about parenthesis a sign that humans cannot adapt anymore and truly try new concepts before judging their merit ? In a decent amount of time ? It took me three months to adapt to Clojure while writing production code and I started at ... 47 years old. It's like if this parenthesis issue is the end of the world. What will happen the day Earth suffers a major blow (The aftermath series) ? Insects will pick up were we left ? http://www.banquedessinee.be/all--21-58.html No need to understand french, just look at the last picture of the page... Sorry for the rant but I find these discussions a bad use of our life time. There is so much to do aside from nit picking on parenthesis.... Luc P. > If someone does write a Lisp with significant whitespace, can we please > call it "Whitespathe"? > > On 7 February 2013 10:30, Marco Munizaga <drchoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We had this talk with scheme. They called it I expressions. Here is the > > link http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html > > > > Do it because you can, and so you can decide for yourself what to think > > about it. > > > > -- > > -- > > 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/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > -- > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Softaddicts<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail from my ipad! -- -- 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/groups/opt_out.
