Re: less parentheses --> fewer parentheses

Subject: Re: less parentheses --> fewer parentheses
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/08/23
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3176056440207851@naggum.net>

* ds26@goldshoe.gte.com (Dorai Sitaram)
| Indentation programs used by editors for Lisp
| code rely on the fact that the font is monospace.
| Non-monospace will complicate them considerably.

  Not true.  Kent Pitman posted an article some time ago about this.
  You basically write spaces at the beginning of the line with the
  same width as the nearest non-space character above it.  Elegant,
  even brilliant, but really trivial after the fact of invention.

#:Erik
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