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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Code beautifiers
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:03:26 +0200
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Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> writes:
>
>> Jano <nono@celes.unizar.es> wrote:
>>=20
>> >Sorry for the obscurity. I mean the later (for example, which puts=20
>> >variables in mixed case, insert spaces missing before ':=3D', ':', =
etc.
>>=20
>> I use -gnaty. The rest is manual work...
>
>Doesn't have to be manual work. Emacs Ada mode (with my extensions,
>see http://www.toadmail.com/~ada_wizard/) can automatically correct
>most of the errors that -gnaty gives you.

Well, I don't like emacs... the old editor wars.

>> Well, probably not, what you wanted, but sometimes even pretty
>> printers go crazy.
>
>Agreed. Much better to write the code in good style in the first
>place. Even then, I rely on -gnaty to check me.

Yes. Although I don't perfectly agree with the default options
(especially the line length, I'd rather have it set to 72), I can live
with that.

But then, who agrees with a coding standard that he didn't designed
himself, anyway? ;)


Vinzent.

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