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> Speaking of indentation, you have it wrong .. That just tells me I got the indentation wrong because it did not clearly indicate the syntactic components of
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
> Speaking of indentation, you have it wrong ..
That just tells me I got the indentation wrong because it did not clearly indicate the syntactic components of the expression.
> Someone who has been working with the language for a while just "sees" this: ...
I take your word for that. I have been working with Lisp for years but not recently, and I had trouble figuring out the meaning of the example code. I even got it wrong you say. It's clear for Lisp experts I'm sure but not everybody is a Lisp expert.
- kazinator 4y agoPardon me; I see the indentation is wrong in the original article by Bob Calco. I rely on indentation; if the indentation is bungled, there is a good chance I will misunderstand the code. I'm not going to count parentheses to see that something was falsely de-indented to look like it doesn't belong to the preceding block.