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Why forbid ! in whitespace-only line? Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin (02 May 2013 04:54 UTC)
Re: Why forbid ! in whitespace-only line? David A. Wheeler (02 May 2013 22:24 UTC)
Re: Why forbid ! in whitespace-only line? David Vanderson (03 May 2013 00:57 UTC)
Re: Why forbid ! in whitespace-only line? David A. Wheeler (04 May 2013 22:56 UTC)

Re: Why forbid ! in whitespace-only line? David A. Wheeler 04 May 2013 22:56 UTC

Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <xxxxxx@users.sf.net> wrote on May 1, arguing that "!"-only lines should be treated differently:
> >> define long-func(x)
> >>    let ((foo bar(x)))
> >>    ! do stuff
> >>    ! ...
> >>    !
> >>    ! more stuff
> >>    ! ...

David Vanderson:
> I think I've convinced myself that indentation should NOT be enforced.
> Anybody else?

Those are excellent points, I agree we should change it.

I've changed draft SRFI-110 so that lines with only space, tab, and at least one "!", are utterly ignored.  I've also modified the implementations in Scheme and Common Lisp.  The ANTLR implementation will be tweaked soon.

--- David A. Wheeler