Hi! Wanted to get some feedback on an annoyance and possible fix for cond and similar forms… I frequently encounter/write code that runs into line length/spacing issues. I think this impacts most of us, whether you prefer 80 chars line max or 120 or whatever. Example: ;; Typical nice case; align…

If I have long conditions and need to have my cond formatted as alternating lines of condition/expression, I just add blank lines between each pair to add readability. I haven’t found anything else that is both simple enough and readable enough to be worth the effort of introducing a custom conventi…

I agree that having to introduce a convention is not ideal. Though I’m considering trying it. My first approach to this was trying to get my editor to do some sort of overlay (and not need any special comment addition) to make the TEST line stand out, but I’d need to do some research to get it to w…

I think in terms of code, it shouldn’t cause issues that I can think of. Now as too if I like it better than proper indent or spaces not sure. You could also try with a comma: (cond (some-really-long-call :to "whatever") , (do-something-also-long) (some-other-thing :with "even" :more …

Thanks @didibus ! The comma is pretty good and simple. I definitely prefer (and I think like) your first example. It’s a little trickier to create a “pretty symbol” for, but maybe it’s simple enough that it does the job and doesn’t need a glyph. Could even make it a double-comma. Oh but alas, cljfmt…

[image] MicahElliott: Oh but alas, cljfmt is pretty particular about commas What does it do with it?

It treats commas as whitespace, so ignores them, and then complains that the EXPR lines should not be indented. Looks like using :remove-surrounding-whitespace? option does not affect this. (cond (some-really-long-call :to "whatever") - , (do-something-also-long) + (do-something-also-long) …

Cursive moves commas to the end of previous line when reformats code.

Feels like adding complexity to anyone reading the codebase. It could easily lead to questions like Is this a new form of reader macro added onto the language… Where is this macro defined, is it on the project or in a library that was imported. Introducing additional ‘convention’ that can easily …

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I was excited to see @didibus mention using commas here. I do exactly this. These days I’m an engineering team of one at CollBox, so I don’t yet know how this will go over with other engineers, but I’ve been test-driving this for a few months now and I’m pre…

Cond indentation/readabliity, continuation syntax proposal for expr

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didibus July 6, 2021, 11:51pm 6

What does it do with it?

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