Style discussions tend to quickly digress into endless bikeshedding, so be careful what you wish for. :-)
- it's easier to discuss code snippets there (mostly because they are properly formatted)
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:
> 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.
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André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"