From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Parentheses and indenting, etc. Date: 1997/07/25 Message-ID: <3078809742308429@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 259975835 References: <5puscn$e0h$1@cdn-news.telecom.com.au> <33CA6A40.7A44@capital.net> <868924581.409344@cabal> <33CE62F4.7C7B@capital.net> <33CFFD28.7EA@capital.net> <33D11103.2A31@capital.net> <33D64176.EE9@capital.net> <33d7d4eb.20686438@news.deltanet.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++ * Fred Haineux | Luckily, many programmers eventually realize that there is a pretty-print | program ("cb" for the unix heads), and it can be set to produce the exact | style of indenting that is preferred. * Walt Howard | You can't do this in a large project. The reason is, you check this code | in. Often it becomes necessary to "diff" two versions to see "what | change made it break". If someone reformatted the whole thing and | checked it in, its impossible to tell what REAL changes were made between | those two versions. it occurred to me that the problem is that "diff" is run on the text representation of the code. had it been possible "diff" the _code_, each programmer could check his code in and out in his own textual style. #\Erik -- Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM: "man shall think. machines shall work." William H. Gates, III, Microsoft: "man shall work. machines shall not."