For a much more useful and, I think, nice way to do something like this I have a new project: https://github.com/boxed/indent-clj

Readable Lisp

An implementation of a subset of the Readable Lisp Project ( http://readable.sourceforge.net/ ). Currently only tested with some Clojure code and only supports the indent-instead-of-parenthesis part of the Readable Lisp spec. Even those parts are probably rather buggy :P

Example:

ns timelike.node
    :refer-clojure
        :exclude
        [time future]
    :import
        java.util.concurrent
            ConcurrentSkipListSet
            CountDownLatch
            LinkedBlockingQueue
            LinkedTransferQueue
            TimeUnit
    :use
        timelike.scheduler
        clojure.math.numeric-tower
        [incanter.distributions :only [draw exponential-distribution]]

is turned into this (although not pretty-printed like this):

(ns timelike.node
    (:refer-clojure
        :exclude
        [time future])
    (:import
        (java.util.concurrent
            ConcurrentSkipListSet
            CountDownLatch
            LinkedBlockingQueue
            LinkedTransferQueue
            TimeUnit))
    (:use
        timelike.scheduler
        clojure.math.numeric-tower
        [incanter.distributions :only [draw exponential-distribution]]))

Usage

untab test.clj-readable

will output standard Clojure source code for the file test.clj-readable

Rationale

I wrote this because I wanted to play around with the concept of Readable Lisp but getting that project to build on my machine took me a long time and at the end I couldn't even get it to work. Then I found the Parsley library which seemed to make it a bit easier to write parsers so I thought I'd give it a shot since I've never played with parser libraries before :P