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From: bill@north.nospam.net.com
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/17
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Date: 1999-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <77t241$mnj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
says...
>
>In article <77rjbk$7d0@drn.newsguy.com>,
>  bill@north.nospam.com.net wrote:
>> As for the issue at hand, nowadays there are plenty of
>> automated tools to reformat the source code in any shape
>> one prefers. so it is not a problem. When you need to
>> work on the code, reformat it as you prefer, work
>> on it and check it in. The other person can check the
>> code later, reformat it as they want and work on it.
>> I've done this myself on C/C++ code working with other
>> programmers each prefer different way of formating. and
>> we never had any problem.
>
>This is often trotted out as an argument, but it is in
>practice bogus for several reasons:
>

<good reason snipped).

I believe after I read your arguments and other that I have decided
your point of view is the correct one.

I now changed my position on this, and I agree that one common style would
be better and that using continuose reformatting of source code would not 
work on the long run. 

Bill.