From: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
To: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Codifying some aspects of Elisp code style and improving pretty printer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:26:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5f9c1a7-6575-466c-a6be-f55f47dcecae@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnmyy29v.fsf@gmail.com>
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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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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 18:01 Codifying some aspects of Elisp code style and improving pretty printer akater
2021-09-30 7:02 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-30 11:26 ` Bozhidar Batsov [this message]
2021-09-30 15:15 ` akater
2021-10-01 7:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-01 14:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 14:26 ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-01 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-01 16:15 ` Robert Pluim
2021-10-01 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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