[xquery-talk] Is there any tool/plugin to verify the xquery coding standards?

[John Snelson]

I'm extremely dubious - coding style is a religion, and you won't get 
general agreement. I've found if you write good code it's readable, 
whatever the style. And if you write useful (bug free) code, no-one will 
comment on the style.

If you really want a single style, here's my solution: Write more code 
than anyone else, and become the de-facto standard ;-).

John

On 29/05/13 10:35, Adam Retter wrote:
> I think it could be valuable for us (W3C WG?) to come up with a coding
> standards for XQuery, so that when we look at XQuery code its all
> formatted the same.
>
> i.e. Where should braces go?
>
> declare local:function($a, $b) {
>    ()
> };
>
> or
>
> declare local:function($a, $b)
> {
>    ()
> };
>
> i.e. Where should return statements go?
>
> let $x = $y return
>    $x
>
> or
>
> let $x = $y
> return
>    $x
>
>
> I think you get the idea...
>
> On 29 May 2013 07:10, Liam R E Quin <liam at w3.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 11:36 +0530, abhinav mishra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for some tools/plugins which provides xquery coding style
>>> check and suggest the xquery coding standards if not followed properly.
>>>
>>> Just like Eclipse has plugins like “CheckStyle“ which gives warning if
>>>   Java coding standards are not followed.
>>
>> Sorry to post a 2nd time - there are eclipse plugins for XQuery, and
>> some editors have support for syntax checking in XQuery (e.g. OxygenXML,
>> and the GUI part of BaseX, to name a couple), in case that's what you
>> meant.
>>
>> Liam

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