Re: [Haskell-cafe] Coding Standards (Coding Conventions)

On 5/28/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

conrad:

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On 28/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

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Our small little window manager, xmonad, also has a pretty strict style guide.

where? Perhaps I need coffee, but I couldn't find this in the source (xmonad, x11-extras, XMonadContrib) or documentation links from xmonad.org :-/

Oh, sorry, it doesn't have a written style guide, just some conventions we should write down. I was unclear.

The same appears to be true with darcs. For example, one that is not enforced but seems to be known to some of the developers is that functions internal to a module use an underscore to separate words and functions which are exported use camel case. An example of one that is strictly enforced in darcs is the use of tabs. There is a script that runs on every record that checks if the user put in tabs and aborts the patch recording if there are tabs in the source. It could be an interesting project to go through the code submitted to hackage and extract different styles. Especially interesting would be to correlate these styles with different factors such as average time to learn the code base, defect density and so on. Jason