From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e9f0eae6d714d11c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing Date: 1998/12/16 Message-ID: <758k9g$j6l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 422887693 References: <74lt16$9r0@romeo.logica.co.uk> <366E9E44.AA7370C7@pwfl.com> <74on70$m9o$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <36714049.2C5CE298@pwfl.com> <36768419.79B1F29A@pwfl.com> <756f3f$pjn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3676DF28.8C0C3C3A@pwfl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x14.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 16 15:40:32 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-12-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3676DF28.8C0C3C3A@pwfl.com>, diespammer@pwfl.com wrote: > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > > > You could do what some of my anal-retentive (and english-imparied) coworkers > > took to doing: line up your commas or semicolons in the parameter lists with > > the parentheses! eg: > > > > procedure Pop > > ( Item : out Element_Type > > ; List : in out List_Type > > ; Flag : in Boolean > > ) ; > > > > That is a style which had not occurred to me. I guess it has the > advantage that each parameter starts in the same column, but it really > disturbs my eye that the terminating semicolon isn't after the thing it > terminates. > > Maybe I could get used to it, but it would take time and possibly > chemical restraints. I'm glad I'm not the only one. That actually got codified as our "official" style on one project. Yuk. -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own