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Clarify if indentation #229
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By my reading of https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide#vertically-align-fn-args, we should indent if like so:
(if condition
(f1)
(f2))...but that's contradicted by other examples in the guide, which use the common two-space indentation for if. Technically the rule might not cover if since it's a special form and not a macro, but there's also if-let and if-some and it would be very weird IMO to indent them differently. It would be good to mention this explicitly, even if just to call out if and friends as exceptions.
(I searched for existing issues covering this, but the closest I found was #87.)
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bbatsov commentedon Oct 30, 2021
All macros/special forms that take a body parameter are indented differently, so I don't think there's anything special about the handling of
if,if-letand so on. Can you elaborate on what exactly is different for them from your perspective compared to other macros operating on a bunch of forms?gpind commentedon Nov 1, 2021
ifdoesn't have a body param, so it shouldn't be covered by the "Body Indentation" rule, right?bbatsov commentedon Nov 4, 2021
Yeah, I guess that's a valid point. Perhaps the bare
ifdeserves some special treatment, or at least a disclaimer.