[kazinator]

Haha! The irony; I found your comment in a HN search for Lisp.

In the search result, your painstakingly indented code appears flattened to the left margin, destroying the correctness of its structure.

https://i.imgur.com/jAB0tBn.png

Just, no.

[jiyinyiyong]

You are right. When tools are not being friendly to indentation based syntax, the code with indentations would be a mess. Parentheses and curly braces are lot like "defensive programming" against unfriendly tools.