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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:46:01 -0500
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Singlespeeder wrote:

> Much of the debate on aesthetics would be needless if there was a good
> freely available non-proprietary tool for reformatting the code, much like
> the C world has 'indent'.

Not everything about style - including asthetics - can be resolved effectively
by a machine. For example, you might have an identifier: Rotor_RPM. Automatic
case rules would have a hard time noting that RPM is an abbreviation and
should be upper case. Or it could just preserve case as it was given, but then
what stops someone from writing rotor_rpm which might violate the coding
conventions?

>
> Unfortunately bad coding style is more than mere aesthetics.
>

Very true.

MDC
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