how useful are collecting lists?
David Vanderson
(12 Mar 2013 04:32 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
David Vanderson
(13 Mar 2013 01:59 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
David A. Wheeler
(13 Mar 2013 02:51 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
Alan Manuel Gloria
(13 Mar 2013 06:54 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
David A. Wheeler
(13 Mar 2013 23:36 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
Alan Manuel Gloria
(14 Mar 2013 00:48 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists? David A. Wheeler (13 Mar 2013 23:57 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists?
David Vanderson
(14 Mar 2013 01:15 UTC)
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Re: how useful are collecting lists? David A. Wheeler 13 Mar 2013 23:57 UTC
Alan Manuel Gloria: > Personally, even in my s-expressions era I started to dislike > deeply-nested definitions... I now know that such deep > defines are a *pain* to debug. True, but sometimes you really do need them, particularly for complex library modules and certain kinds of complex data structures. I think using a collecting list after a "." will be rare, but when you need it, there's just no substitute. It can turn a deeply indented expression that forbids blank lines into a simpler format (and where blank lines end at a controlled point). And as you noted, they follow from the definition of <*...*>, so it would a surprise to the user if they are NOT allowed. --- David A. Wheeler