Mark, I was hoping to some more concrete conventions. Your guidelines are good, but are too general (applicable, I would say, to any programming language)
An example for what I meant would be predicate functions whose name by convention should end with ? (odd? even? etc.) An example in Java would be JavaBeans specification. An example of a confusion that I am talking about can be seen in Refs and Atoms: Ref: alter. commute, ref-set Atom: swap!, reset! I don't know whether these names had to be totally different, but why is ! used in atom-related functions and not in ref functions. OK, maybe now it is too late to cnahge such things in the clojure core, but with a proper conventions, we could minimize that in new libraries... On Jul 19, 2:40 pm, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I documented some coding guidelines > athttp://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/ClojureCodingGuidelines.html. If > anyone has ideas for additions/changes they would like to see, I'd > gladly add them. > > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Dragan Djuric<draga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > I am still in the process of getting to know Clojure (which is also my > > first lisp). Are there any coding standards defined for Clojure? > > Before someone cuts me off that Lisp is all about freedom and doing it > > your way and everything, let me explain a bit. > > I agree that people should have choice - so they have and will have > > with or without coding standards. But, if there is not any coding > > guide, a lots of these choices are going to be random, so the various > > projects' code base will end up being PHP-ish. It also applies to > > naming conventions, and it seems to me there is a lots of randomness > > in that regard in Clojure libraries. What will happen if/when Clojure > > becomes popular? > > I am not talking about large specs - I am talking about a page or two > > of the most common things, as a PDF doc or a Web page, Wiki or the > > like. > > Is there already something like this? If there is not - is it a good > > idea to start a discussion on this issue here and create such guide? > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
