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_7ffc on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language

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.

alpaca128 on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

> 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

_7ffc on Oct 31, 2019 | | [–]

HA well there you go. This shouldn't have to exist.

SolitudeSF on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

you can compile with `--stylecheck:error/hint` for enforcing consistent naming.

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