Re: proposals for LM B. Scheme tutorial

[Mark Polesky]

Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
> >    #(begin
> >
> >    (define foo 0)
> >    (define bar 1)
> >
> >    )
>
> The formatting is bad.
>
> > #(begin
> >    (define foo 0)
> >    (define bar 1))
>
> Parentheses are never left alone on a line.

I respectfully* disagree:
http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-style#H-189ddlj

Though I think it might depend on the size of the code within the
#(begin ...). When I have many screens worth of consecutive scheme
expressions lumped into a #(begin ...), the extra indenting (even
just 2 spaces) seems unnecessary. But even more to the point, when 
the last expression is a large procedure, and I want to block-
comment it out for debugging, I don't want to accidentally remove
the terminal parenthesis of the (begin ...).

#(begin
  (define foo 0)
#!
  (define large-procedure ...))
!#


And squeezing a little !# between parentheses is also a bad idea
since it's harder to find than if it were in the first column.

  (define bar 1)!#)

- Mark

*really. You're a LOT better than me at scheme.