Re: Lua Style Guide ?

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 6/8/2017 11:50 AM, Daurnimator wrote:
> On 7 June 2017 at 01:41, Russell Haley wrote:
> > I am biased, but I find daurnimators code so elegantly simple it 'has no style'.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle,
and dissolve the principle.*
                                -- Bruce Lee

> Thanks!
> I wouldn't say it has no style though: my coding style has evolved
> over the years.
> Back in 2008ish I wrote this up about my coding style at the time:
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/lomp/wikis/CodingStyle.wiki
> However much of my preferences have now changed.
>
> If I thought anyone would read+follow a coding style guide, I might
> keep one updated. But I've learnt that no one *does* read them: it's
> more practical to have a "house style" for a project, and catch
> anything that deviates in a pull request.
> The only time a guide works is when they have tooling to enforce it:
> however for such a tool to be useful (no one agrees on style!) it has
> to be tremendously configurable.
> Even then you have to persuade people to use the tooling (see how
> often people use astyle or clang-format).

* https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
His books are of course better than a page of quotes. Roughly: 
First, you learn the forms. Then you master, or internalize the 
forms. Finally, you break free of the forms when you see fit.

--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia