Style for dotted method invocation

[scolobb]

Hi everyone,

Are there any style guidelines for use of dots in method calls? In particular, should I prefer one of the following:

1. (self.method 1)
2. (.method self 1)

More generally, is there a Hy style guide somewhere?

I would like to learn how to write beautiful Hy :-)

[Kodiologist]

I prefer (.method self 1) (or with Hyrule's meth macro, (@method 1)). I never liked how object-oriented languages tend to put the function second rather than first. It's a needless inconsistency with function calls. But I still call functions from modules, or class methods, with the syntax (foo.bar 1). In those cases, the foo feels more like a part of the function's name, rather than an argument of the function.

There used to be a style guide in the manual, but I felt that official documentation was no place for a really subjective thing like that, so I removed it. Maybe there's another one out there somewhere.

[scolobb]

Thanks @Kodiologist ! I wasn't aware about the meth macro in Hyrule, very practical.