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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by karmakaze on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:55PM (#31126411)
Probably true for Lisp, but gofmt would disagree.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by KSPAtlas on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:20PM (#31129467)
Writing a formatter for lisp would be a piece of cake, as the syntax is very simple
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the source folder called 'src'? by karmakaze on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:47PM (#31130145)
I meant to refer to how gofmt doesn't destroy information (to a human reader) whereas a Lisp formatter would probably make well-formatted comprehensible source much less so: conceptual chunks can't be inferred from syntactic ones--well maybe with GPT-3.
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