Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant

["Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>]

Marin David Condic
>Identifier capitalization is just one instance where automation can't
>universally apply and definitely not the best example because there are
>ways of at least mostly-automating it with some possible human
>intervention. There are others that can't be dealt with as easily.

Quite the opposite I should think. As long as one uses the way it is written in
the declaration then there should be no problem.

The disadvantage is that the prettyprinter would have to know where to obtain
the declaration and parse the relevant files to obtain the information. This is
of course very easy :-)

Apart from that the first occurence rule sounds very reasonable.

Failing that the ada vendors could agree on a convention for special comments
to be used for pretty printing directives. E.g.

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