Prolog Coding Guidelines: Status and Tool Support
Programming Languages
2019-09-19 v1 Logic in Computer Science
Software Engineering
Abstract
The importance of coding guidelines is generally accepted throughout developers of every programming language. Naturally, Prolog makes no exception. However, establishing coding guidelines is fraught with obstacles: Finding common ground on kind and selection of rules is matter of debate; once found, adhering to or enforcing rules is complicated as well, not least because of Prolog's flexible syntax without keywords. In this paper, we evaluate the status of coding guidelines in the Prolog community and discuss to what extent they can be automatically verified. We implemented a linter for Prolog and applied it to several packages to get a hold on the current state of the community.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1909.08230,
title = {Prolog Coding Guidelines: Status and Tool Support},
author = {Falco Nogatz and Philipp Körner and Sebastian Krings},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.08230},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings ICLP 2019, arXiv:1909.07646