Re: Ada95 Pretty-Printers

[smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize)]

In article <dewar.866304251@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Only by default, in that the RM has very little to say about indentation,
...
>For recommendations on style at this level, you have to look elsewhere than
>the RM.

This is true.  I believe it's AQ&S that suggests the rule "indent the
way the ARM does," and I've seen a lot of people following that.


>Personally my only real criterion for style is absolute consistency.
>I mistrust
>people who have strong feelings about one style over another, because
>it is such
>people who end up being recalcitrant when they move into a new
>environment with
>differnt established styles.

Well, I have strong feelings, but I go with the defined style of the
project (if any).  But then, you don't have to believe that, you
mistrust me :-).

I agree that the benefits of any given style are far smaller than the
benefits of having a uniform coding style.  I was just glad to see
that there might be somewhere a project I could work on and code
like I like to code.

The original poster was looking for a way to get Apex to behave in
accordance with his project's existing style guidelines, so we
probably all three agree.

Sam Mize

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