Leading commas are a good idea, since the first non-whitespace character of a line tells you if it is a continuation.
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 12:58:17 PM UTC-4, Peter Damoc wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:02 PM, John Orford <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Commas beginning lines etc. >> >> Perhaps not idiomatic in Python or JS, but new good ideas rarely are : ) >> >> > I think I've answered too quickly in the previous reply. > > Commas beginning lines looks weird to a lot of people glancing at elm. > We got used to them and, as with status quo in general, one can find > reasons to keep it. > > I would much rather have the compiler accept trailing comas and elm-format > inserting them automatically when spreading a list/record on multiple > lines. > > > > -- > There is NO FATE, we are the creators. > blog: http://damoc.ro/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
