Re: Code Formatters

[abn@news.sema-grenoble.fr (Axel Boness)]

In article <dewar.847201701@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
|>Ole-Hjalmar says
|>
|>"Your idea of elegant code may not coincide with mine. As a project
|>leader, I want *standardized* layout. Having a standard layout
|>which is conformant to the output to some prettyprinter is in my
|>opinion a good idea, because it means that those who do not want to be
|>burdened with the detailed layout can avoid it. This does not stop
|>anyone from documenting the program in an elegant manner, assuming
|>that you can stop the prettyprinter from mangling your comments."
|>


I totally agree with you. Here we have thousands of units of code which
were written (and maintened) by about 80 different developpers. Each had
his own style of formatting. Readability is good because people took
care when writting the code. But styles are different and when one is
maintening the code he has to browse in different styles loosing time to
understand how the code is formatted.

Therefore I would like to work with a language where presentation is
normalised  (enforced by the editor) even if it's not as beautifull as
it may be.

 
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