On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've never seen that. Subsequent lines are always indented for me. I'd suggest checking your RDi settings.
I don't have RDi. But "subsequent lines are always indented" sounds
exactly like what prompting in SEU does. That's not meaningful
indentation. What I want is indentation by logical level, like any
sane programmer would indent in any sane language. I actually thought
RDi did do meaningful indentation, since I'm pretty sure people rely
on that for free-form RPG.
Roger mentioned something about "CL indentation" and "autoformat" as
two different things. I wasn't completely sure what that meant.
Normally, an editor would provide automatic as-you-type indentation,
as well as a "reformat existing code on demand" function (for
languages where this is possible, and CL is such a language). But both
of those features would presumably use the same indentation scheme, so
I don't understand why Roger would praise one but not the other.
And Evan was saying something about a hypothetical prettifier
recognizing IF and DO and so forth, which also suggests that prompted
CL code isn't *meaningfully* indented.
One thing about prompted CL code in SEU is that the combination of
always using every keyword, every time, plus always indenting
everything pretty far from the left edge, results in a lot more
two-line statements than necessary. This contributes significantly to
the verbosity and uglification of code.
John Y.
midrange.com
