[REBOL] Re: source code layout question
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 5-Jan-2002 9:53
RE: [REBOL] Re: source code layout question
[joel--neely--fedex--com] wrote:
> Ooops, I forgot another bit of trivia from my past!
>
> Carl Read wrote:
> >
> > I try not to have more than one evaluation on a line though,
> > unless they're within a block. So this I'd try to avoid -
> > (usually:)...
> >
> > while [x < y][y: y - x append z "x"]
> >
>
> Ordinarily I do as well, but sometimes I cheat... I remember
> from my FORTH days (FORTH also eschews any pretense at syntax)
> the convention of using horizontal whitespace to break a run
> of words into "phrases", which might deal with the above
> something like
>
> while [x < y] [y: y - x append z "x"]
>
> Just another option, but not one so easily automated!
>
automation, hmm, giving upper-case-letters some extra-spaces?
while [x < y] [ Y: y - x Append z "x"]
where is my %clean-script.r ? :)
> -jn-
>
-Volker