An interesting candidate for this is the current clojure.contrib.pprint tool. It should be adapted to not only grok clojure forms, but also strings, of course (and this may not be that easy), so that nothing in the source code is lost during the parsing ...
2010/9/6 <sitk...@gmail.com>: > It would be _nice_ to have a default that was the baseline format. The Canon > of Clojure Conventional Conformity (CCCC). > If an org or project wanted to have a different format, they could supply it > as a plugin to the clojure-fmt tool. > (set-format "local-conventions") > When the format gets applied, etc is up to the smart people. It would make > sense to me that (set-format ...) is for the physical representation of the > file on disk and in version control, etc. If my IDE understood (set-format > ...) I could *view* and *edit* in my preferred format (local project or IDE > setting), I would never know or care about the underlying representation. > Does that make sense? > If Clojure was stored in an opaque binary container we wouldn't care, > everyone's viewer/editor would adjust. The physical representation would > cease to matter. > > On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Daniel Gagnon wrote: >> >> I think it would be great if an official "clojure-fmt" tool existed. >> I have no interest in forcing people to use it who don't want to. But >> I think it would set a great baseline for IDEs and would be helpful to >> the people and teams who like having coding standards. I would be one >> of a number of people who would voluntarily use such a tool. > > I would too because I prefer a good and predictable format to a perfect one > I'm the only one to use. Also if that tool is customizable, people could use > it format source to their own preferences out of git when they pull and > format it back when they push. > I don't think there's something special about Python that makes it more > suitable to something like PEP 8. If Python users were like Lisp users, > they'd bicker incessantly about how how much space in indentation but Guido > said it's 4 spaces and that's it. > I don't believe we can find *the* one style but I would like someone with > sufficient clout to suggest *a* style. > -- > 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 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 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
