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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I daresay, if ROK would publish <i>his</i> standards, I’d probably follow them. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Actually, I’d probably follow anyone’s formatting rules if someone would publish some. Maybe <i>I</i> should…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DBM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joe Armstrong<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> Dmitrii Dimandt<br><b>Cc:</b> Erlang Questions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [erlang-questions] Erlang Style Guide<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt <<a href="mailto:dmitrii@dmitriid.com">dmitrii@dmitriid.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Where to put punctuation, naming etc. is a matter that is discussed with religious fervor - nobody agrees<br>here at all ...<br><br>/Joe<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What about this?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt <<a href="mailto:dmitrii@dmitriid.com" target="_blank">dmitrii@dmitriid.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all!<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>Is there a more-or-less universally accepted Erlang Style Guide. SImilar to, say, PEP08 (<a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/" target="_blank">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/</a>).<br><br>If there isn't, does anyone has a style guide the use? Would you care to share you style guides with the list?<br><br>Thank you!<br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org" target="_blank">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br><a href="http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Alexander<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br><a href="http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions" target="_blank">http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>