From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style
Date: 1996/04/28
Date: 1996-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.830719362@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ltjat$dao@parlor.hiwaay.net
Bob Crispen was looking for pretty printing tools to enforce a standard.
I must say I do not like this approach. For uniform style rules to work,
everyone has to buy into them, and buying into them means getting
completely familiar with them and not considering writing code in any
other style.
If you rely on pretty printing tools, then there is a danger of continuing
to foster a sloppy attitude to the style rules.
I *do* like tools that enforce style rules, to the extent that this is
possible. Many style rules are simply too indefinite to enforce
mechanically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-04-28 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-17 0:00 Ada naming conventions? Bob Crispen
1996-04-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-04-25 0:00 ` [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style JP Thornley
1996-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-27 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-04-29 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Peter Milliken
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` David Sanderson, IV
1996-05-01 0:00 ` [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style [LONG] Laurent Guerby
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-30 0:00 ` [Q] Tools for Ada Quality and Style Laurent Guerby
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Frank Falk
1996-04-30 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-04 0:00 ` LJMetzger
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Rolf Ebert
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-04-30 0:00 Bob Crispen
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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