Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses

Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/03/28
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3163275695429682@naggum.no>

* Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
| I've seen most of the style arguments based on philosophy posted on this
| thread, but there is one argument I have not yet seen.  [match the
| results of the pretty printer.]

  I like this argument.  I think we can sum it up like this:

    there is no whitespace after an opening parenthesis.
    there is no whitespace before a closing parenthesis.
    this is the law.  if you break it, it is not pretty.

#:Erik