On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Norman Richards <o...@nostacktrace.com>wrote:
> I do stand by comment. You are free to disagree. It's so painful to > watch people (experienced LISPers and newbies alike) manually balancing > parenthesis and spending inordinate amounts of time to do the simplest > tasks like pulling an expression up into a let or wrapping/unwrapping > blocks. I've never once seen someone programming Clojure without paredit > and thought to myself "wow - that guy/gal really has this down". The scope > of this statement is limited by the sadly small number of great Clojure > coders I've had the pleasure of watching work. I would truly love to see > some counter examples. > Getting back to the point of the original post, one of the nice features of DrRacket is that when you type `]`, it automatically puts either ']' or ')' depending on which delimiter is required. In Clojure, you could extend this to `}`. When you have this feature, there's nothing arduous about matching parens. You just hit `]` repeatedly to close off the section that is now complete. I really like the analogy put forth earlier in this thread that this is like closing off a thought. Paren matching is currently more arduous in Clojure, because you really do have to pay attention to which kind of delimiter you're closing off and type the right one, so I would love to see this convenience feature implemented in one of the Clojure environments. -- -- 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.
