[racket] Coding principles and styles

Oh, and for reference, the Racket style guide:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Style/style/

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
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>> An hour ago, Greg Hendershott wrote:
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> [...]
>> > You know that old saying, "I apologize for the length of this letter
>> > but I didn't have time to make it shorter"?  I hope your code is the
>> > result of multiple revisions. Because if you tell me it comes out
>> > this way on your first try, I'm going to be very scared. :)
>>
>> Heh, I pay too much attention to how the code looks like...  I have
>> very strict rules about it, and I almost never let myself go around
>> them, even when I debug it.  (This results in some incompatibilities
>> with the currently blessed style -- for example, I keep code at a
>> width of <=79 chars (or in rare cases at 80); but OTOH I stick in most
>> cases to putting as much on one line as possible within this limit.)
>>
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> I'd be very interested in what your rules are. Could you expand a little
> please?
> Personally, although I do lack rigor, I tend to apply the "Never write the
> same thing twice" principle (except I have yet no real principle about
> where the compression must stop, though the length of the identifiers does
> not count).
> I don't have (for now) a hard limit of 80 chars, mainly because of
> wide-screens and indentation, though I don't like long code lines with many
> things stuffed in, so I might be closer to "80 chars from the start of the
> line".
>
> Laurent
>
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