Re: GOP-PROP 10: scheme indentation

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/9/21 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:20:39AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>> David Kastrup writes:
>>
>> > Personally, I'd prefer it if we focused on solving rather than creating
>> > real problems.
>>
>> +1
>
> Automatic indentation *does* solve real problems.  Take a look at
> this:
> http://codereview.appspot.com/4490045/
> and then compare with the final commit:
> 258dd9a854b627b533ab709a137b23c539857838
>
> Drafts 3-9 were indentation.  Note that discussion involved me,
> Carl, Janek, Janek, and Benko -- that's a lot of lilypond
> development experience.  And yet the end result was still 5 weeks
> to get a ~50 line patch from a new contributor contributor.
>
> Gee, I wonder why we haven't seen any more patches from that new
> contributor?
> </sarcasm>
>
> Now admittedly I haven't seen anything like that for scheme
> indentation, but I never want to.  If a simple script can lower
> the chances of driving away new contributors, let's go for it.

Yes.  There are two acceptable choices about indentation: don't care
about it at all, or have an auto-indenting script and therefore don't
have to worry about it at all.
Issue 1630 was a nightmare.

cheers,
Janek