Hi Ludo, On Mon, 03 Jan 2022 at 16:02, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> When doing the first iterations of ‘guix style’¹, I found it more > pleasant to the eye to have small lists on a single line, the prime > example being: > > (native-inputs > (list autoconf automake libtool pkg-config)) > > Diffs of such a list remain readable IMO. I do agree that for longer > lists one item per line is clearer though, which is why the pretty > printer has this #:long-list parameter, currently defaulting to 5. > > There’s an opportunity to discuss style with new ‘guix style’ changes². > However, care must be taken not to fall into the bikeshedding trap. I > think we must aim for readability and consistency, but also acknowledge > that there’ll always be circumstances where one might choose a slightly > different stylistic variant and that up to a certain level those > variants are entirely fine. In the end ‘guix style’ is a helper; human > beings get the last say. Well, I disagree. But yeah, as you said elsewhere 1) the proposal had been done more than 6 months ago so I had time to wake up and raise and 2) let avoid to fall into the Walder’s law; as exposed by the excellent food for thought video [1] you pointed [2]. Cheers, simon 1: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1t4zGJYUuY> 2: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87ee641w3e....@inria.fr>