Re: 2a73673 Change how thread-first/thread-last indent the first argument

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Adam Porter [2021-10-05 03:41 -0500] wrote:

> You're right about Clojure.  And, in fact, Dash.el does follow Clojure
> there in its implementation of `->>', et al.  However, earlier this
> year, Basil adjusted its indentation to be in line with how
> `thread-last' used to indent, with the first form indented more:
>
> https://github.com/magnars/dash.el/pull/375
>
> And perhaps ironically, it was me who convinced him to revert that
> change and restore the Clojure-like indentation.  My reasoning was the
> same as my second reason posted here: it results in lots of whitespace
> churn downstream.
>
> At the same time, I agree with Basil that we need not follow Clojure's
> conventions, and using first-form indentation is more useful.

FWIW, the discussion you link is only the latest instance of Dash going
back and forth on this issue:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/66623/15748

-- 
Basil