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Re:Advent of Nim by BoppreH on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:45AM (#18560079)
I personally think it's a great idea. Much better than having a code base with mixed camelCase and snake_case because a library didn't follow the language convention.

I've seen people write wrappers just to fix casing.

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Re:Advent of Nim by joelthelion on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:47AM (#18560092)
A much better solution is to have a language-wide style guide, with a tool such as "go fmt" to enforce it.
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Re:Advent of Nim by alehander42 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:55AM (#18560125)
Interop with C/JS: you can't control all identifiers, because you can reuse a rich ecosystem of other language libs: you can't force their names to change

EDIT: you can still change them in importc pragmas, but this still seems less nice to me.

Still, you can reuse Nim libs even if they don't follow nep1: one can still use nimpretty/gofmt for his own codebase.

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