Sure, Tim,
I also remember having disagreed with a fair amount of rules, and the very
prescriptive style.
The idea of just agreeing on same defaults for editors seems sufficient.
Given sufficient lazy users like me, this one single rule of default values
should be sufficient to help spread a common convention ;-)
Le samedi 20 décembre 2014, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com> a
écrit :
> I recently browsed parts of that guide and was surprised how many bits I
> disagreed with. Especially around the "one space in these rare cases" bits.
> Not that that is a bad thing it's just my personal opinion that everything
> should always use two space indentation.
>
> And on a client project recently, it was decided (when I wasn't around)
> that the arguments to a function should always be on a newline:
>
> (defn foo
> [x]
> (+ x x))
>
> Instead of:
>
> (defn foo [x]
> (+ x x))
>
> I disagree with this idea also, but whatever, it's just style. It's not
> like I suddenly can't read Clojure code since it's in the wrong style.
>
> With so many different views, I think it's unwise to lock any editor into
> any style. Instead give users options, and update the Clojure Style Guide
> with the following (paraphrased) quote from Pirates of the Caribbean: "this
> Code of Styling is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."
>
> Timothy
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Fluid Dynamics <a2093...@trbvm.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','a2093...@trbvm.com');>> wrote:
>
>> A way to hint indentation to the tooling would be nice.
>>
>> Perhaps a metadata on vars such as {:body-indent #{then-clause
>> else-clause}} that could tell tools to indent an "if" this way:
>>
>> (if condition
>> then-clause
>> else-clause)
>>
>> instead of this way:
>>
>> (if condition
>> then-clause
>> else-clause)
>>
>> rather than the current ad-hoc special-casing that seems to be used at
>> present. (Ad hoc special-casing would still be needed for special forms,
>> including "if", but this could be used with macros and perhaps with
>> functions if someone wanted that.)
>>
>> (Formal specification for that suggestion: the metadata key :body-indent
>> should have a value that is a set of symbols, which are some subset of the
>> symbols appearing in arglists of the bound macro/function. Editors and
>> pretty-printers and other tools would take this as a hint to indent the
>> corresponding parameters only two spaces, if on lines of their own, rather
>> than to align with parameters inline with the operator on the form's first
>> line.)
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