[darcs-devel] darcs style

[Owen Stephens]

I think the idea of tidying up the code-base is great.
I've made tiny inroads myself in some patches, and will continue to do so,
as I
think Will is correct, the code-base is stylistically a real mess.

On 23 January 2012 12:44, Iago Abal <iago.abal at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Will Langstroth <will at langstroth.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Wondering if you're accepting "janitorial" patches. If you've seen Johan
>> Tibell's Haskell Style Guide<https://github.com/tibbe/haskell-style-guide/blob/master/haskell-style.md>,
>> and it seems reasonable, I'd be happy to have a go at making darcs stick to
>> that one style (or one comparable) for easier reading. I'm just getting
>> into the code, and the existing style is eclectic enough to be distracting.
>>
> Your intentions are good, but I don't think Darcs is going to stick to a
> particular coding style. Most likely you will make an effort but Darcs
> developers will continue coding in their particular style, so (ideally) you
> will end submitting patches regularly fixing the coding style.
>

Why not? Johan's style suggestions seem sensible, there is no style guide
for
Darcs currently, so no wonder everyone code differently.
Line wrapping, indentation and import lists are particularly varied - but I
use
a 80-char terminal, so I may be biased towards the importance of wrapping...


> In base of my previous experience you are going to fail convincing Darcs
> people to follow a concrete coding style. But lets try, perhaps you will
> succeed -- good luck!
>

Things having happened in the past doesn't necessarily preclude them from
happening in the future!

Owen.
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