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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 backlog1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Indentation
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:51:02 -0500
Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation
Message-ID: <ls3k8m$4q9$1@loke.gir.dk>
References: <ls2su9$kh7$1@speranza.aioe.org>
 <0c2b1cf8-125b-44d6-9f46-2dc1c546e5c6@googlegroups.com>
 <ls30lf$cj2$2@dont-email.me>
NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net
X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1407538262 4937 69.95.181.76 (8 Aug 2014 22:51:02 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:51:02 +0000 (UTC)
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157
Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188296
Date: 2014-08-08T17:51:02-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
news:ls30lf$cj2$2@dont-email.me...
...
> Of course, the ARM indentation goes back to Ada 80, and one can argue that 
> the ARM is never wrong, in which case indentation is arbitrary and the 
> only rule can be "use what the ARM uses".

My understanding is that the Ada 9x team went through the entire standard 
and regularized the indentation. (It's not really from Ada 80 anymore.) 
Remember, they also switched to Title case identifiers (Ada 83 had them all 
in UPPER CASE - yuck!). Since, we pretty much take it as given.

For aspects, we had a long and rather inconclusive discussion about how they 
ought to be indented. The style shown in the RM is what we settled on, but 
it wasn't close to unanimous.

The only indentation that I know I do differently than the RM is record 
types (I think the RM inserts an extra level there for no reason). 
Otherwise, I follow the RM style pretty closely (more closely as the years 
go by).

                                    Randy.