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Some time ago parinfer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205) took some attention as a more pythonesque a
by harperlee 2y ago
Some time ago parinfer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205) took some attention as a more pythonesque approach to matching presentation and meaning. I liked it, but it seems that it didn’t catch on, alas.
- kazinator 2y agoHow do you know it didn't catch on? It depends on Lisp! The fraction of programmers using parinfer is bounded by the fraction of Lisp programmers. (I think I might have seen some fledgling experiment with parinfer for other languages, though.) I'm highly resistant to novelty in this area, yet even I am using parinfer. A crappy implementation in Vim, at that, which only works in One direction: indent -> parens, and can get into an infinite loop fighting with Vim's undo.
- harperlee 2y agoWell from what I see on the emacs corners of the internet, not so much discussion. Also I recently read on an HN thread I started: it was taken out of Calva due to bugs no one fixed.