On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]>wrote:
> What about doing the formatting in two steps. The first step is > automatic and includes dealing with stuff like identing and creating > empty method headers. You could probably use existing IDE formatters > for that. The second step would be the manual process and would > reflect the Style Guide suggestions. > I'm thinking that the style guide's recommendations will likely be integrated with IntelliJ 9's Scala plugin. Ilya has been looking for something to build his code formatter on and I think this document may provide the best guide for him. If we can build new code going forward based on the style guide and then "backport" the rest of the code when the tooling is available, I think that may be the best use of resources. Thanks, David PS -- I think the style guide is stellar! > > D. > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Took a look at the guide and it looks good. The question is: do we > >> wait for code beautifier that is based on the guide or do we do format > >> our code ourselves? > > > > I'm not sure there's a non-interactive code beautifier which we can > > configure (formatting in IDEs hardcodes many configurations). Besides, > > since Scala syntax is still a moving target, I'm not sure anyone has > > focused on creating such a beautifier just yet. In a word: we should > > format ourselves. > > > > But a great idea for a hobby project ;-) > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics
