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Whitespace philosophy (for Lisp stuff)

Can people who put in a ton of whitespace in the middle of lines so that (on monospace) bindings or table values match up vertically please lay that off? Thank you.

• It looks messed up on proportional fonts and on screenreader.
• It’s difficult to extend; say you need to add a new line and it makes some of the “columns” now too narrow. Your diff now has to touch every line.
• It makes it fiddly to add code in that area and to use Paredit properly.
• You can’t string search for key/value pairs or name/binding pairs without a whitespace regex.

I don’t want my Lisp to be ASCII art. This isn’t Befunge.

(This isn’t refering to whitespace at the beginning of lines, a.k.a. indentation. That’s fine.)

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