[erlang-questions] Erlang Style Guide

[Toby Thain]

On 18/05/11 9:56 AM, David Mercer wrote:
> I daresay, if ROK would publish /his/ standards, I’d probably follow
> them. 

Co-signed.

--Toby

> He’s the guy who puts punctuation at the beginning of a lot of
> lines.  The way it is now, I just go with what looks good (which means
> punctuation at the end of the line), because I can’t be bothered coming
> up with rules to follow, but I’m pretty sure ROK has in his head some
> self-consistent system that makes sense and makes coding easier.
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> Actually, I’d probably follow anyone’s formatting rules if someone would
> publish some.  Maybe /I/ should…
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> Cheers,
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> DBM
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> *From:*erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED
> [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] *On Behalf Of *Joe Armstrong
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:02 AM
> *To:* Dmitrii Dimandt
> *Cc:* Erlang Questions
> *Subject:* Re: [erlang-questions] Erlang Style Guide
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> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitrii@REDACTED
> <mailto:dmitrii@REDACTED>> wrote:
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> This is an excellent guide. However, it mostly deals with language
> constructs and programming habits. It would be nice to complement this
> with a "writing style" guide that would discuss identation and nesting,
> naming conventions etc.
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> Where to put punctuation, naming etc. is a matter that is discussed with
> religious fervor - nobody agrees
> here at all ...
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> /Joe
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>     What about this?
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>     http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml
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>     On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Dmitrii
>     Dimandt <dmitrii@REDACTED <mailto:dmitrii@REDACTED>> wrote:
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>         Hi all!
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>         Is there a more-or-less universally accepted Erlang Style Guide.
>         SImilar to, say, PEP08 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).
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>         If there isn't, does anyone has a style guide the use? Would you
>         care to share you style guides with the list?
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>         Thank you!
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>     Alexander
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