From: Daniel Hackney <dan@haxney.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interest in "Elisp lint"-like tool?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:46:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMqXDZsROs_we5Gwsk3MPZR6OTn4LqR81tJjE4Letizqg4W=oA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j3bopk8r45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> (trivial comments only)
>
> Daniel Hackney wrote:
>
>> - elLint
>
> A bad name, since elint.el already exists. (See also lisp-mnt.el.)
Ah, I wasn't aware. Again, these are merely random ideas off the top of
my head; I'm sure others could come up with better (read: less cheesy
and less already-taken-y) names.
>> Some of these style choices seem fairly uncontroversial (like making
>> sure `provide' is at the end of the file)
>
> It is not always possible though (to avoid recursive requires is the
> usual reason).
Haha, bad choice of "uncontroversial" example, then! ;)
Looking at the list again, I guess none of them are truly
uncontroversial, but many should be reasonably easy to agree on, like
having ";;; filename.el --- What this file does" as the first line or
"no trailing whitespace."
The broader point is that I think it would be useful to have some
guidelines on these sorts of things beyond what currently exists, and
some way to enforce or "gently suggest" adherence to them.
--
Daniel M. Hackney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 22:45 Interest in "Elisp lint"-like tool? Daniel Hackney
2012-01-31 3:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-01 14:46 ` Daniel Hackney [this message]
2012-02-02 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-31 10:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
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