On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:29:27AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:
If you need to write a style guide, why not use
https://github.com/tibbe/haskell-style-guide/blob/master/haskell-style.md
as a starting point. It's widely used in the Haskell community nowadays (e.g. it's a common recommendation on IRC) and it's based on the coding style of Duncan, Bryan, and Don for the most part.
Sounds like a good place to start. My pet disagreement with it is everywhere that it allows the indentation of some code to depend on the *name* of the thing being defined. I always indent my code so that I can change names without reindenting anything. I like the import rules, though. Should probably clarify "standard library": do we mean boot packages, or the HP? In any case, it would be nice to get from the major contributors to Cabal a "yes" (even if it is a "yes but") or a "no" on the above style guide. My inclination with regards to newly enforcing it would be to fix code that you're visiting anyway – e.g. every time you add an import, re-organise the entire list. That way you minimise conflicts and everything gets done sooner or later. regards, Ben