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Date: 2013-01-31T09:51:33+00:00
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> In practice, when one is developing a program that generates
> source-code (in Ada or other languages), it is often necessary to look
> at the output to check that it is correct, or to understand why it is
> wrong, and this is much easier if the output is not only broken into
> lines, but also indented in the usual way.

I adopted the rule that, within reasonable bounds (eg, no user-defined
identifiers > 50 characters, say) the generated code shouldn't raise any
style check warnings. And should act as an example of the code style
desired for the hand-written code.