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It was thus said that the Great steve donovan once stated:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >  The only way to enforce an official style in *any* language is to embed
> > the style in the language definition itself.  No even the creators of Go
> > were that fascist in their zeal for an official coding style (they wimped
> > out and created go-fmt).
> 
> Heh, but they had curly-braces to deal with, always a fine topic for
> bikeshedding!
> 
> We do not have the brace problem, fortunately, just the need to indent
> (which Python embeds in the language)
> 
> As for 'programs are readable documents', they always look to be
> better as poetry, not prose; never fear using too much vertical space.
> 
> The Rust compiler by default spits out yellow ink if violations of the
> naming style happen (CamelCase types, snake_case variables, SHOUTING
> constants)
> 
> I'm fine with that since my opinions do not differ from rustc ;)

  Sigh.  A reason not to use Rust then.

  -spc (IHateCamelCase)