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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by swalladge on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:39AM (#21394739)
This. I like many of the things that Nim is doing, but I refuse to take it seriously if it's going to make basic things like tag search and grepping difficult.

inb4 a Nim linter is written to force a consistent naming style throughout a codebase.

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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by alpaca128 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:10AM (#21395051)
> inb4 a Nim linter is written to force a consistent naming style throughout a codebase.

Already done:

https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nimfmt

> Detect inconsistent variable/function naming

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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by swalladge on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:20PM (#21405104)
HA well there you go. This shouldn't have to exist.
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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by SolitudeSF on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:37AM (#21396987)
you can compile with `--stylecheck:error/hint` for enforcing consistent naming.
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