Re: [PATCH] Replace broken LADSPA URL.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>>> +       (uri (list (string-append "http://http.debian.net";
>>> +                                 
>>> "/debian/pool/main/l/ladspa-sdk/ladspa-sdk_"
>>> +                                 version
>>> +                                 ".orig.tar.gz")
>>
>> My preference is to keep “version” and the following string on the same
>> line because they are both short.
>>
> Is it a lisp / scheme convention to do this? I always think I should
> call a function like this:
> (func arg1 arg2 ...)
> or
> (func arg1
>       arg2
>       ...)
>

You are right.  What you have described is the general rule.
Nonetheless in the case of ‘string-append’, some of us like to make an
exception probably because the general rule wastes a lot of lines
without improving clarity.

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Mathieu Lirzin