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John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Mark H Weaver scripsit:
>
>> The line-up approach assumes fixed-width fonts, yes, but I don't see the
>> relevance of non-ASCII chars or encodings. Existing free fixed-width
>> fonts support a great many languages.
>
> In any case, the line-up approach is relevant only to s-expressions,
> not to t-expressions, where the approach is definitely based on spaces
> and tabs only.
I don't understand why you say this. Consider:
(operator operand-1
operand-2
operand-3)
=>
operator operand-1
operand-2
operand-3
Okay, so sweet expressions allow us to get rid of many parentheses.
That doesn't mean that we should throw away the nice vertical-stack
formatting that most Schemers are accustomed to. This question of which
column to indent to is orthogonal to the s-exprs vs t-exprs question:
(operator operand-1
operand-2
operand-3)
=>
operator operand-1
operand-2
operand-3
Regards,
Mark