Arc Forum | (if 1 ; if 2 ; then 3 ; if 4 ; then 5) ;...

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3 points by akkartik 4611 days ago | link | parent

  (if 1    ; if
        2  ; then
      3    ; if
        4  ; then
      5)   ; else

Yeah, it's problematic how to indent the "5". The above way makes it look like a test rather than an action, and indenting it further makes it seem like part of the same block as 4.

You can tell that there's no idiomatic way to deal with this because the arc/HN codebase is schizophrenic, using both in different places.

2 points by rocketnia 4611 days ago | link

Well, I always indent it in one of two ways, depending on how much room I have:

This style may have drawbacks, but I stubbornly use it anyway. :-p

  (list:if 1   ; misaligned condition
    (do a b c
      (d e f))
      (is x 0)  ; looks like part of the previous expr
    4
    5)

EDIT: Changed "I like it most of the time anyway" to "I stubbornly use it anyway." XD Somebody upvoted me before my edit....

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1 point by akkartik 4610 days ago | link

I understood what you meant, rocketnia ^_^

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2 points by Pauan 4611 days ago | link

For Nulan, my current thought is that multi-case "if" is too confusing with indentation, so the above would be written like this:

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