[squeak-dev] Coding style

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 21:03:28 UTC 2010


How can we use that?  Does RefactoringBrowser load into trunk image now?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/10 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>> On 10.03.2010, at 11:29, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>>
>>> 2010/3/10 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>>>> On 10.03.2010, at 02:53, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> +     ^packageList ifNil:[packageList := (PackageInfo allPackages collect: [ :each | each packageName]) sort]!
>>>>> -     ^packageList ifNil:[packageList := (MCWorkingCopy allManagers collect:[:each| each packageName]) sort]!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This to me replaces one style of too few spaces with another of too many ;)
>>>>
>>>> I'd have written
>>>>
>>>>        collect: [:each | each packageName]
>>>>
>>>> but I just looked at the Blue Book and there indeed is a space before and after a block argument. OTOH it does conform to Kent's examples:
>>>>
>>>>        http://c2.com/ppr/formatting.html
>>>>
>>>> Generally I feel this is not much of a problem. But I have occasionally seen rather strange formatting, So for the benefit of better readability, do we want to have general rules for formatting code?
>>>>
>>>> Many projects have such rules. One good example IMHO is PEP-8 in the Python community.
>>>>
>>>> For Smalltalk I only know Kent Beck's rules from "Best Practice Patterns" which seem like a good set. And IMHO any rules are better than none, so maybe we want to just agree that if in doubt, follow that suggested practice?
>>>>
>>>> - Bert - (hoping this does not open a can of worms ...)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same discussion was just taking place at Pharo a few days ago.
>>> There seem to be established rules also for Seaside & co package developpers.
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>
>> Ah, can you point us to those rules? Simplest might be to just adopt them for trunk packages.
>>
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>
> We should ask Lukas probably, or just use the code formatter from RB?
>
> Nicolas
>
>



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