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It is very common for programmers who are new to Lisp to close their parentheses in the former style. However, it is a crutch that they soon do away with if the
by db48x 4y ago
It is very common for programmers who are new to Lisp to close their parentheses in the former style. However, it is a crutch that they soon do away with if they stick to the language for any length of time.
- lispm 4y agoThere are two reasons why sometimes the parentheses are on a separate line: ((paris (french)) (los-angeles (english spanish)) ) Something like above would be used if one often adds data clauses to that expression. Also when there are comments on the last line, then sometimes the expression might be closed on the following like: ((paris (french)) ; city 1 (los-angeles (english spanish)) ; city 2 )