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Anthony Cartmell  
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 More options Mar 28 2000, 3:00 am
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From: "Anthony Cartmell" <AJCartm...@csi.com>
Date: 2000/03/28
Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses
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> It's because you haven't yet separated your IDL writing style from
> your Lisp writing style.

Actually it's David who wants to format ICAD with Lisp layout rules. I use
dangling parens.

> Eight years sheds no light on a person's experience level.

Except that they have more experience than someone with one year!

> If you practice mistakes,
> then you will only perfect the mistakes.  What is the mistake here?
> It is the mixing of Lisp layout style with IDL layout style.

Agreed.  I don't let any Lisp style guidelines get into my ICAD layout.
That was David's idea, and I have been trying to find out why he thought
that way.

Once we've decided that dangling close parens are
1) Good for long shallow lists, to allow easy insertion of items, and
2) Bad for short deep lists, because they take up too much space and don't
provide any benefit,
the required rules for ICAD seem obvious to me.  There is some tweaking
possible of course, but the statement that "dangling parens are bad" really
doesn't apply to ICAD code.

I've put together some layout examples of some typical ICAD code for anyone
interested at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AJCartmell/icadparens.html .

Thanks for your comments!

Anthony
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Anthony Cartmell
Application Architect
New Design Paradigm
Worthing, England
Tel. +44 1903 201084
E-mail: AJCartm...@csi.com


 
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