[racket] bracket conversion?

I like the idea of a "style coach" very much! That'll be very handy also for students/beginners, actually.

-- Éric


On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:52 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Yesterday, Eric Tanter wrote:
>> That sounds like a great option "from the quick hacks dept" as you
>> say ;)
>> 
>> Anyway, I was wondering whether that wouldn't be something that
>> makes sense for DrRacket to have at some point. Just like you can
>> configure default spacing for specific keywords.
> 
> Soemthing that I have said about this in the past: I think that
> formatting code is too individual to have a one-size-fit-all tool, so
> you can't do something practical.  If you try to, then you're likely
> to fall into the Emacs trap where indentation etc have a huge number
> of customization option, to the point that most plain users never use
> them.
> 
> Instead, I think that it is much more effective to do a tool that
> *recommends* changes rather than do them.  Maybe some kind of a "style
> coach"?
> 
> I have some code (which I posted in the past, IIRC) that checks style
> problems in code and reports them -- something like that could be
> turned into such a tool.  Something that would work very nicely IMO is
> a tool that works like a spell checker, where you see the
> recommendations one by one, and for each one you can ignore it, ignore
> all of the problems of the same rule, or let it fix it.  (Ideally,
> you'd also have some "that's how I want my code" option, so that when
> I use it in my own style of `if'-indentation I can say that this is
> how all of my `if's should be indented...)
> 
> [And BTW, this is not only for paren shapes and indentation -- I use
> it for other things like (if E #f #t) or (if E1 E2 #f), where it
> prints a comment that says that you should use (not E) and (and E1 E2)
> resp.]
> 
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