[twstws]

1 paren moved and all line breaks and indentation removed. This is intentionally obfuscated. Is there any language that is easy to read when you put five lines of code together like This?

I haven't read a lisp style guide, Emacs just takes care of indentation - it is immediately clear when a paren is wrong because the shape of the function is wrong. If you are writing lisp with an editor that doesn't do this, get a better editor, don't blame the language.

[ebiester]

Oy. The mistake was actually in posting too late and not using the proper code tag. Don't drink and post, kids. ;) When I brought the code into vim I used the same indentation as the example, I saw that the indentation changed, but you're saying "The shape of the function is wrong."

It's quite possible my experience as a programmer today would be different than when I started -- I mean, I made it through a few chapters of SICP without such troubles, but in the back of my head was the memory of trying to figure out my logic error in a bit of code when it was really a misplaced paren.

[berntb]

>>Is there any language that is easy to read when you put five lines of code together like This?

Arguably Python -- but to get that, Python sacrificed the possibility of both usable anonymous functions and the possibility to cut-paste a code fragment and just ask the editor to reindent.

Hardly worth the price.