Style discussions tend to quickly digress into endless bikeshedding, so be careful what you wish for. :-)

I've started the GitHub style guide project for 2 reasons:

- it's easier to discuss code snippets there (mostly because they are properly formatted)
- I wanted to avoid the extra work to update the Emacs manual

I hoped that eventually some of this work would go back to the Elisp manual, but lately I haven't had much time for the style guide and it has been somewhat dormant. 

I completely agree that in the end of the day one also needs to enforce style automatically (e.g. via formatters/linters). That's what I did with Ruby and RuboCop, but it's so much work that I didn't want to do it for other languages. :-) 

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 10:02 AM, André A. Gomes wrote:
> akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There is an informal consensus that it's worth it to use whitespace
> > wisely to keep Lisp forms concise vertically as well as horizontally.  I
> > think if the idea is recognised as useful it better be explicitly stated
> > as such rather than remain folklore. [...]
> >
> > True, this is largerly a matter of personal style.  However, there is
> > also some accumulated experience which I think is worth aggregating.
> > And no style is actually 100% personal when we collaborate.
> 
> Akater, I think the topic you're raising is important.
> 
> My only thought is that it makes little sense to aggregate these
> folklore syntax practices without a (heartless) linting tool that
> actually enforces/checks if they're being respected.
> 
> 
> -- 
> André A. Gomes
> "Free Thought, Free World"
> 
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