On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip>
I don't think that argument holds water. At all. Google rules are not > R rules, and R is not Julia. Companies and projects often have very > specific style guides, while entire languages rarely do. I think that style guidelines and coding standards are more common in companies than language communities because they can enforce them. That said, I think that PEP8 in the Python community is a great resource and the fact that the community has a loose consensus to follow them makes working in Python and contributing to Python projects easier. The standardization also means that there's lots of tooling available that helps keep the style consistent. If we can agree that in general having a more prescriptive style guide is a good idea (which I'm guessing will need some more discussion), perhaps discussion of individual rules would be better raised as issues and pull requests in the repo? Hopefully once some consensus is reached the guidelines can be incorporated into the existing Manual and eventually merged in to the docs at http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/style-guide/ -s
