Strunk didn't call his book "Elements of English". On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 4:48:21 PM UTC-5, Zach Tellman wrote: > > > Where possible, this book will give specific, prescriptive advice on how > to write idiomatic Clojure. Everywhere else, it will describe the space of > possible approaches, and provide a framework for deciding which to use. >
I don't think that Strunk and White provided a framework, nor did they fully delineate a space of possible approaches, but they did do something *like* that. > In my mind, a style guide confines itself to prescriptive advice, and > ignores anything which doesn't lend itself to that. The latter part, which > is definitely demonstrated in the first chapter, makes this more than a > book about style. > Maybe this is what's conveyed in some programming contexts, and perhaps that's reason enough not to use "style" in your title, but "style" doesn't convey that in general. > However, it is definitely focused on giving practical advice about how to > write Clojure. > That's certainly part of what S&W wanted to do for English. Maybe *Elements of Clojure Style* or *Clojure Elements of Style* could be reasonable options. Not my choice nor my job to decide on your title. Of course. :-) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
