Meh. Took me all of two seconds to figure out what scope that line was in. Then when I read on and was told its hard, I double-checked by counting parentheses only to find out I was right the first time. I honestly don't know what hes talking about.
As for "line count" not being important, I personally like fitting as much code into one screen as I can (especially since I often code on my netbook). Short functions are important, but even then, nice and compact code is still very important to me. Especially since I'll split code onto their own lines once the line gets more than about 70 or so characters long.
I dunno. Even if line count was unimportant to me, I don't see what the problem is, since I found it easy to spot the nesting.
Anyway, that code is much too complicated. Hes using Clojure (ie, a Lisp), he should make use of the available abstractions to simplify the code. This will, in turn, make it easier still to figure out nesting of arbitrary lines of code.
As for "line count" not being important, I personally like fitting as much code into one screen as I can (especially since I often code on my netbook). Short functions are important, but even then, nice and compact code is still very important to me. Especially since I'll split code onto their own lines once the line gets more than about 70 or so characters long.
I dunno. Even if line count was unimportant to me, I don't see what the problem is, since I found it easy to spot the nesting.
Anyway, that code is much too complicated. Hes using Clojure (ie, a Lisp), he should make use of the available abstractions to simplify the code. This will, in turn, make it easier still to figure out nesting of arbitrary lines of code.