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Re:Advent of Nim by tcoff91 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:04PM (#18565007)
It seems crazy to me that people are so annoyed that their libraries have different style that we have to have additional tooling to make code search simple for the end-user.
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Re:Advent of Nim by dom96 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:46PM (#18565635)
You don't _need_ additional tooling. You can get by with just searching as normal, it's not as if people's code bases are filled with random conventions or random case variations...
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Re:Advent of Nim by tcoff91 on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:07PM (#18571039)
style insensitivity WILL lead to typos that don't get caught. Someone will change the casing somewhere. Therefore you must always search with style insensitivity in mind.
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Re:Advent of Nim by nimmer on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:15PM (#18571749)
Most people use completion anyways and it prevents this problem. Also, you can lint the code.
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Re:Advent of Nim by beagle3 on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:36AM (#18569362)
Styles are religions, including - in some organizations - the threat of excommunication if you don’t practice the one style.

I don’t know how atheistic style looks, but Nim is style agnostic - everyone can practice their religion and they all get along. C, Python, and the real world - not so much.

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