It took me a minute to realize that you're talking about code formatting on HN, and it has nothing to do with Clojure.

I was like: "What formatting are they talking about? It's darn Lisp - there's no 'formatting gripes' here..." The only thing Clojure devs have to agree on - to align or to indent, and that's all the formatting rules and conventions you need to know about.

Inexperienced newbies say: "Lisp is hard to read", which I think is completely overblown and in fact is the opposite - Lisp is so nicely readable, that even on a narrow screen of a phone it remains readable - the code simply wraps around - a trick Python and Haskell programmers especially hate.

I have yesterday tried to read docs (sure, find by google :) ), and there stated "Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)".

- Tried, and it really work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc