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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:02:01 -0500
Date: 2001-01-03T15:02:01-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A538539.1DC04647@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ur931sr3f.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov

> > Then all you do is specify a company wide set of flags for the tool
> > and insist that all code is run through the tool with those flags
> > before checking it into the code libraries.
> 
> Exactly what our Ada style guide says:
> http://fsw.gsfc.nasa.gov/library/standards.html

But using a particular compiler (good as it is) as your
pretty printer risks difficulties using another compiler
that doesn't have the same bugs.

(i.e., it maybe a certain construct, legal or not, crashes
GNAT, but the alternative crashes Apex.  I've seen it happen!)

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-03 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-20 22:22 Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant Singlespeeder
2000-12-20 23:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-21  4:12 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-21 11:33   ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-21 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2000-12-21 19:30   ` William Starner
2000-12-21 20:54     ` Florian Weimer
2000-12-22 21:33       ` William Starner
2000-12-22 14:57     ` Bruce or Tracy
2000-12-23  8:04       ` Simon Wright
2000-12-28  0:54         ` mark_lundquist
2000-12-22 15:06   ` Ira D. Baxter
2001-01-03 20:02   ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2000-12-21 23:46 ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-22  6:45   ` mark_lundquist
2000-12-28 16:05   ` Erik Magnuson
2000-12-28 20:16     ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-29  4:05       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-29 12:19       ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-29 14:02       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-12-29 16:23         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-29 14:44       ` Erik Magnuson
2001-01-03 20:12   ` Wes Groleau
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