Artur Domurad (Dec 06 2023 at 12:29): Artur Domurad (Dec 06 2023 at 12:29):What do you think about adding 2 empty lines between top level values/functions in roc format?
Not sure if it is the default setting, but elm-format always adds 2 empty line in my elm code - and I really like it!
It is very easy to visually partition the code into seperate blocks this way.
Anton (Dec 06 2023 at 12:31):I like it too!
Brendan Hansknecht (Dec 06 2023 at 16:13):I think it is a good idea.
LoipesMas (Dec 06 2023 at 21:45):I was surprised that it doesn't
Richard Feldman (Dec 06 2023 at 22:39):fine by me! I don't have strong feelings one way or the other
Richard Feldman (Dec 06 2023 at 22:40):if anyone wants to make a PR to introduce it, go for it!
Ryan Bates (Dec 06 2023 at 23:01):I've been adding two lines and was surprised when roc format converted it to one line.
However if I have a lot of top level expect lines I don't think they should have two lines between them.
Isaac Van Doren (Dec 06 2023 at 23:12):Yeah, sometimes it is very nice to have lots of expects close together
Isaac Van Doren (Dec 06 2023 at 23:13):Or even just a top level declaration and a related expect separated by a single line to show that they are grouped. It would be very nice if there is a reasonable way for the formatter to still allow this
Richard Feldman (Dec 07 2023 at 01:14):hmm yeah I also like expects side by side, like no blank lines at all if they're one-liners
Luke Boswell (Dec 07 2023 at 03:20):Same with constants for me.
Maybe we could have two spaces only before comments or annotations (both function and types) instead?
Luke Boswell (Dec 07 2023 at 03:21):Like, sometimes I like having a bunch of related things and grouping them without spaces. But almost always these dont have an annotation.
Richard Feldman (Dec 07 2023 at 03:25):that sounds like a reasonable heuristic to me!
Luke Boswell (Dec 07 2023 at 23:15):I've been writing a lot of html recently and the current formatter can make some strange decisions, is it easy enough to tinker with it? I am thinking it would be nice to be able to tweak it as I find issues and make a PR with my reccomendations. I appreciate that there is a lot of personal preference here, but it's not easy to neatly describe specific issues.
Richard Feldman (Dec 08 2023 at 00:51):yeah I think it's relatively straightforward to tinker with, but lmk if you have any specific questions!
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