Hi all,
I'd like to get some opinions on this. As I've been reviewing the existing
rules, we have a bunch that fall into the category styling: line length,
semicolons, etc. I've been having some heartache around the tri-state
nature of these rules. What I mean is, our rules are mostly binary (on vs.
off), but in reality there are three states:
1) Require something
2) Disallow something
3) Turn the rule off
So for the semicolons rule, right now we can enforce semicolons or else the
rule is off. We don't have a way of saying "require that semicolons ARE NOT
used". If we wanted to add that, what would we do? I don't like the idea of
adding a no-semi rule, because that makes semi and no-semi mutually
exclusive without any way of indicating this is so (this is what JSCS does,
and I really don't like that approach).
What I've been thinking is to have a single rule that is responsible for
style and add a special section in the conf to specify styling preferences,
such as:
style: {
quotes: "double",
semi: "require", // or "disallow" or remove this setting if you don't
care
indent: "\t",
spaces: {
inside-parents: true,
},
newlines: {
// etc
}
},
rules: {
style: 2
}
Then there would be a "style" rule that is responsible for applying
everything in the style section.
This is still a very raw idea in my brain, so I'd like to hear some
opinions on this.
Thanks.
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