[racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-09 Thread Laurent
Hi, Reading the style guide for Racket, I came up with a few debatable suggestions. ( http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Style/style/Textual_Matters.html ) Apologies if this has already been longly debated. * Indentation: adding new indentations constructs to DrRacket >From the guide: "Caveat

Re: [racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-09 Thread Laurent
* Line-width In GEdit, there's an option to show a thin vertical line at 80 chars (modifiable number). I find it of great help to avoid writing long lines, which I tend to not do otherwise or often (inconveniently) look at the column number to see where I am. Such a vertical line might be a good i

Re: [racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-09 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Laurent wrote at 05/09/2012 06:55 AM: * Line-width In GEdit, there's an option to show a thin vertical line at 80 chars (modifiable number). I find it of great help to avoid writing long lines, which I tend to not do otherwise or often (inconveniently) look at the column number to see where I

Re: [racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-11 Thread Neil Toronto
On 05/09/2012 02:18 AM, Laurent wrote: From the guide: "Caveat 1: Until language specifications come with fixed indentation rules, we need to use the default settings of DrRacket’s indentation for this rule to make sense." Maybe a special submodule like drracket-indentation with declarations li

Re: [racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-11 Thread Eli Barzilay
5 hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > On 05/09/2012 02:18 AM, Laurent wrote: > > From the guide: "Caveat 1: Until language specifications come with > > fixed indentation rules, we need to use the default settings of > > DrRacket’s indentation for this rule to make sense." > > > > Maybe a special submo

Re: [racket-dev] A few suggestions on indentation and DrRacket graphical syntax

2012-05-12 Thread Laurent
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 5 hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: > > On 05/09/2012 02:18 AM, Laurent wrote: > > > From the guide: "Caveat 1: Until language specifications come with > > > fixed indentation rules, we need to use the default settings of > > > DrRacket’s inden