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I'm confused. In every modern language I've used apart from go and terraform, only leading indentation matters and autoformatters do not apply mid-line alignmen

I'm confused. In every modern language I've used apart from go and terraform, only leading indentation matters and autoformatters do not apply mid-line alignment or align subsequent lines against characters in a previous line. edit: and maybe Haskell? the layout rules are complicated personally I don't think lining up e.g. variable or parameter names in c style declarations improves readability at all, and it pollutes git diffs. but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces.

elwell 6y ago
Good point, it is usually the leading indentation that matters most. I guess since I use Clojure mostly, I like to be able to line up pairs in a map, or a let binding. This could potentially be achieved with tabs, but I'm a spaces guy so I think variable-spaced fonts would be problematic. > but I do use a monospace font in the terminal because many command line applications align their output into columns using spaces Ah, makes sense.