From: Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski@gmail.com>
To: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tuareg mode: Indentation of application arguments
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:18:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF1Sy-GTBDi6h8bR49XA4+MnhaxXU3vNY2xHu9MvbVJPTK373A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505E578A.10207@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/2012 2:13 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote:
>>
>> ... indentation is something that requires
>>
>> human intelligence (and good indentation is an art rather than
>> science).
>
> I admit that under some circumstances, code can be made easier to read by
> giving it crafted indentation. But having a single indentation standard (and
> probably code layout) for all OCaml code would be better. In exchange for
> the occasional inability to indent code for extra readability (maybe
> comments would suffice instead), we would gain a community-wide improvement
> in our ability to read each others' code.
>
> E.
>
To be honest, most of the time it doesn't matter, because whoever you
work for will enforce a coding standard...
kris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 14:58 Romain Bardou
[not found] ` <20120917.222210.832076572642519350.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>
2012-09-18 3:08 ` [Caml-list] " Stefan Monnier
2012-09-21 13:42 ` [Caml-list] " Romain Bardou
2012-09-21 20:11 ` Kristopher Micinski
2012-09-22 13:22 ` Romain Bardou
2012-09-22 13:53 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2012-09-22 18:13 ` Kristopher Micinski
2012-09-23 0:27 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-09-23 1:18 ` Kristopher Micinski [this message]
2012-10-08 15:17 ` [Caml-list] " Stefan Monnier
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