On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dragan Djuric<draga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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)
I agree. That's why I'm asking for additional suggestions. I added your suggestion below about predicate functions. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
