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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/16
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-12-16T00:00:00+00:00
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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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