Integration with common style guidelines about kibit HOT 3 OPEN

For what is worth - I'm planning to write a tool at some point, that automatically enforces the guidelines at some point(like I did for the Ruby style guide with RuboCop). When (if) this would happen, however, I cannot promise given my pretty busy schedule and the multitude of projects I'm involved with.

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The Clojure guidelines have moved to http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Library+Coding+Standards

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I've looked at this and have a few thoughts. Because kibit reads source with a clojure reader, it isn't able to 'see' some of the infractions of the style guide as they aren't present in the read form. For example comments, whitespace and commas aren't available when the file has been read. Secondly, some of these style suggestions would be better addressed in eastwood which is a linter, whereas kibit's goal is suggesting more idiomatic ways of expressing a form. Thirdly, some of these suggestions aren't possible to check with Kibit because it reads without macroexpansion or evaluation. Lastly some people disagree with some of the style guide suggestions. Opening kibit up for extension by third party rules in #66 could let people check some of these rules without requiring them to be part of kibit.

All that being said, I think there's some good things in the style guide that might be able to go into Kibit. I'll check through Kibit to see which of these are already there or annotate this list with why I don't think they are appropriate.

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