(Arne Babenhauserheide)
2014-11-24: SRFI: talk about let () SRFI: talk about let ()
diff --git a/docs/srfi.org b/docs/srfi.org
--- a/docs/srfi.org
+++ b/docs/srfi.org
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ The syntax shown here is the minimal syn
*** Empty indentation level
-*A line which contains only whitespace and a colon (":") defines an indentation level at the indentation of the colon*. It opens a parenthesis which gets closed by the next less-indented line. If you need to use a colon by itself. you can escape it as "\:".
+*A line which contains only whitespace and a colon (":") defines an indentation level at the indentation of the colon*. It opens a parenthesis which gets closed by the next line which has less or equal indentation. If you need to use a colon by itself. you can escape it as "\:".
#+BEGIN_SRC wisp
let ; (let
@@ -335,7 +335,14 @@ The syntax shown here is the minimal syn
string-append "Hello " who "!" ; (string-append "Hello " who "!")))
#+END_SRC
-If the colon starts a line, it starts a parenthesis which gets closed at the end of the line *and* defines an indentation level at the position of the colon.
+If the colon starts a line which also contains other non-whitespace characters, it starts a parenthesis which gets closed at the end of the line *and* defines an indentation level at the position of the colon.
+
+If the colon is the last non-whitespace character on a line, it represents an empty pair of parentheses:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC wisp
+ let : ; (let ()
+ display "Hello" ; (display "Hello"))
+#+END_SRC
*** Initial Underscores
*You can replace any number of consecutive initial spaces by underscores*, as long as at least one whitespace is left between the underscores and any following character. You can escape initial underscores by prefixing the first one with \ ("\___ a" → "(___ a)"), if you have to use them as function names.