[racket-dev] RFC: Coding Guidelines

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
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>> We're attempting to write down coding guidelines for the project.
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>> Here is a first attempt:
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>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/tmp/201008161509-guidelines.html
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>> Please comment.
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> You write
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> "As long as your code fulfills its promises and meets each of these criteria, you can push incrementally.
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> For example, I may be working on adding an exhaustive queue library to Racket. I imagine supporting 30 different functions across 5 different queue implementations. I don't have to wait to push until all 150 function implementations are documented, tested, and stressed. I can push whenever I make progress on each of the required points."
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> Either this is contradictory, or I'm misunderstanding it.  The first paragraph suggests that the code must meet each of the criteria; the second suggests that as long as it's *closer* to meeting the required criteria, it's fine.

Maybe you can help me say it better. What I'm trying to get at is that
150 functions is perfect to me, but if I only promise 30 functions and
meet the criteria for each of them, then I can commit even though it
is not "perfect". Progress here is meeting the 4 points for each new
function I push.

Jay



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