Code style guide?

[Gregory Collins]

+1 for stylish-haskell --- I have it enabled in my save-hook for most of my
patches. It would be good to check in a stylish haskell YAML dotfile into
the repo with some sane/uncontroversial settings (I like the horizontal
alignment but a lot of people don't), then make a one-time pass over the
repo. It will cause merge conflicts on any pending merge request however.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:08:35PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Do we have a general notion of what we consider best practices for
> > > contributed code to Cabal? Perhaps we should formalise something?
> > >
> > > One of the reasons I wanted to get the wiki back online was in the hope
> > > that it had some pointers, but it doesn't seem to. (I've started
> migrating
> > > stuff anyway: have a look at https://github.com/haskell/**
> > > cabal/wiki/Migration-from-trac<
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Migration-from-trac>for status).
> > >
> > > For example, many of the Cabal modules have explicit, and therefore
> quite
> > > long, import lists, with no clear organisation, and hence when adding
> new
> > > imports I have to read the entire list to make sure they are not
> already
> > > there, and then wonder where makes sense to insert them. Usually I just
> > > make something up with no pattern to it, and hence perpetuate the
> problem.
> > >
> >
> > My experience is that without an automated tool or editor command to
> > organize the headers humans are unlikely to do it. A quick google search
> > didn't turn up any vim or emacs commands for this relating to haskell.
>
> We have
>
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stylish%2Dhaskell
>
> which is integrated into Chris Done's extensions to the emacs
> haskell-mode: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode.
>
> -Brent
>
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