Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:58:45 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

With my first glimpse of lithp code I immediately felt repelled ...

I suspect at least part of that is down to the traditional code
layout, where an accumulation of opening parentheses from various
prior lines are all closed at once on a single line. I call this the
“parenthesis pileup” layout.

Here’s a sample of how I prefer to layout my Lisp code:

    (global-set-key [?\s-o]
        (lambda ()
            "open a file named in the region if there is one, else prompt for a file name."
            (interactive)
            (cond
                ((use-region-p)
                    (let (beg end)
                        (get-cur-line nil beg end)
                        (find-file (buffer-substring beg end))
                    ) ; let
                )
                (t
                    (call-interactively 'find-file)
                )
            ) ; cond
        ) ; lambda
    ) ; global-set-key