[plt-scheme] Odd Auto-indenting

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Wed Jun 14 22:51:06 EDT 2006

On Jun 14, Chris Warrington wrote:
> 

> What's up with weird auto-formatting in this snippet of code:
> (call-with-output-file
>     argument
>   (lambda (port) (dump-database (call-with-input-file 
>                                     DATABASE 
>                                   read-cookie-objects) 
>                                 FORMAT
>                                 LINE_LENGTH
>                                 port))
>   'text
>   'truncate/replace)
> 
> Notice especially the (call-with-input-file DATABASE read-cookie-objects)
> sexp. Now that's just weird.

This is a very common indentation pattern -- call-with-input/output-file
have a "special" first argument, and then a body-like thunk.  Emacs
does the same too (and probably what inspired the indentation code in
DrScheme).

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