From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/16
Date: 1998-12-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33e6gge5y.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 758k9g$j6l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
By using ada-mode with emacs, there is no justification for
idiosyncratic coding conventions like that one described below.
dennison@telepath.com writes:
> In article <3676DF28.8C0C3C3A@pwfl.com>,
> diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
> > dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > >
> > > You could do what some of my anal-retentive (and english-imparied) coworkers
> > > took to doing: line up your commas or semicolons in the parameter lists with
> > > the parentheses! eg:
> > >
> > > procedure Pop
> > > ( Item : out Element_Type
> > > ; List : in out List_Type
> > > ; Flag : in Boolean
> > > ) ;
> > >
> >
> > That is a style which had not occurred to me. I guess it has the
> > advantage that each parameter starts in the same column, but it really
> > disturbs my eye that the terminating semicolon isn't after the thing it
> > terminates.
> >
> > Maybe I could get used to it, but it would take time and possibly
> > chemical restraints.
>
> I'm glad I'm not the only one. That actually got codified as our "official"
> style on one project. Yuk.
>
> --
> T.E.D.
>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-09 0:00 Gnat pretty printing Matt Tyler
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1998-12-10 0:00 ` okellogg
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-12-14 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-15 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-19 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-21 0:00 ` BARDIN Marc
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