From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: learning Emacs Lisp Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:17:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1226379475.20507@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226402268 3312 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2008 11:17:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Riley , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Richard Riley" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 12:18:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzrGd-0005UA-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:18:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzrFV-0001QZ-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzrF9-0001PZ-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzrF8-0001P5-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58319 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzrF8-0001Ox-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.243]:3867) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzrF8-0008Uk-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c38so552377ana.21 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=sPVWu2Wfp3h5vkE4w8Z5Opkky7ZnoksLwavB62WMsMk=; b=PBeYa+z6JZuJDGK54I69fWdWM2iy1UuNmc+UD3177HOLo5Oi26MUrMxTwhtrtJoJXT C9A4SYGJPYwkHPcPfHHbXl2ctaqr0BvfForXV+HFhhg3zUiwEvnAxy53H3hEa/e7lzq/ JXEFvcL43z3TfQ7SjwKZbdZrYueFi5tWQUV80= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=wCw2hohPKHj6llAv4RPUo9vpThfIozSy2UN/tMfljHgofA/OhPgtoiZ+gPs3YRg6FT kIignr4zxJO8uXuN9XQOs3MJ75Rb+qxREKIyuWfKys++/m6g+DEviuJEx6UiGUOosWHh 4wcUtBONyn8RegqG/a4sg0UYLF8mKaBWxrFFs= Original-Received: by 10.100.227.6 with SMTP id z6mr2791014ang.120.1226402229464; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:09 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.100.13.13 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59656 Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:04, Richard Riley wrote: > I like the > > if(f){ > /**/ > }else{ > /**/ > } > > K&R style. I like it too, more or less, but the equivalent in Pascal is quite ugly IMO. But, as you say, that's K&R style, so it is widely known. Of course indentation styles are conventions; we find them ugly or beautiful, mostly, out of familiarity. And in the Lisp family of languages, aligned brackets are unusual, except in very deeply indented code; and even so, it's often not that brackets are aligned, as that a bunch of them are moved to the next line to avoid having too many closing parenthesis put together. > Still, one man's meat is another man's poison. Sure. Juanma