> Common Lisp in particular is extremely unfriendly to threading macros. Arrows imply a consistent thread-first or thread-last functions. But CL's standard lib is too inconsistent for that to work. So we're left with picking an indentation style we don't necessarily like.
All in all, this post reads like a rant, and I realized that upon reading "now what I'm about to suggest is likely not to your taste". That style of indentation is something I use often when writing calls to long-named functions like COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS and I haven't ever thought of it being not to my taste, or even of it being ugly as the author suggests.
Well, it's all based on my experience. In two Lisp companies I worked in, colleagues complained or even were trying to fix how I indent things. So it's not just some anxiety whatever, it's experience that needs explanation and justification.
I'm aware of arrow-macros/diamond wands, and am using them myself. But I often have to write dependency-less libraries for moderately complicated algos, and that's where indentation style is the only thing I can rely on.
Diamond arrows exist, you know.
All in all, this post reads like a rant, and I realized that upon reading "now what I'm about to suggest is likely not to your taste". That style of indentation is something I use often when writing calls to long-named functions like COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS and I haven't ever thought of it being not to my taste, or even of it being ugly as the author suggests.