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- From: spray@convex.com (Rob Spray)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Style Guide "Enforcers: (was Re: Question of style)
- Message-ID: <spray.711925638@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 21:07:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.151014.16733@sei.cmu.edu> <3070001@mothra.rose.hp.com>
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- In <3070001@mothra.rose.hp.com> tom@mothra.rose.hp.com (Thomas Vachuska) writes:
-
- >Hmmm.... pretty printers are fine and dandy, but I would tend to think that
- >interactive (or incremental) formating, would be the thing to go after -
- >as in GNU Emacs Ada mode. What do you think?
-
- Well, I think pretty printers have their place. When you check
- a file out of the CM system, it can be piped through the pretty
- printer with _your_ style preferences.
-
- When something gets checked back in, it's reconverted to the
- "standard" style in the CM system, which could be the style
- as delivered or maybe a semi-compressed form, e.g. all left
- justified, with no indentation - the compilers don't care.
-
- This scheme obviates the "Style Wars" that waste a lot of time.
-
- --Rob spray@convex.com
-
- Disclaimer: I work for a company that sells hardware! B-)
-