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  • For something to merit a name, it must be used in at least 2 places.
  • Favour operations, avoid keywords.
  • Some punctuation is semantically essential (||, ?, !), some is only arguably useful sometimes ({, ;). Favour the first, avoid the second when you can.
  • ☝️ Parentheses are the exception. ( is brilliant, so is ,. Use them eagerly!
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barneycarroll commented Dec 4, 2017 •
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Ideas for a theme to encourage good practices in this area:

  • Prioritise operator and scoped reference prominence
  • Diminish keyword & parenthesis prominence

Distinguish between imports, signature & declaration references

Maybe a scale of reference colour saturation mapping to scope, ie

a(b => b(({c}) => c)
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☝️ a, b, and c are increasingly less colourful

a(b => b|(({c}) => c)

☝️ b, is most colourful (b & c are equally less colourful?) (c is discoloured because it's out of scope?)

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