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breck
on June 28, 2017
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You actually don't need parentheses--you can use whitespace. You give up the ability to add N arbitrary trees/nodes to one line, but in return you get beautiful, geometric code that's easier to reason about at scale.
ohyes
on June 28, 2017
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I do this too. ctrl-meta-q is really all I need... Sometimes i'll do rainbow parens if i'm feeling festive.
carapace
on June 29, 2017
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links to example code? (breck too)
breck
on July 3, 2017
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This:
(+ 1 2 (x 3 4))
Can be written as:
+ 1 2 x 3 4
Or:
+ 1 2 x 3 4
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