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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,429176cb92b1b825 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:35:01 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <3077fffa-eed7-4763-8bca-9ac3bb0a41e1@o14g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4D353B22.2090901@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 59xjXE7stDARAmb8zI1USw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16537 Date: 2011-01-18T23:35:01+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:01:29 +0100, Randy Brukardt = a =C3=A9crit: > I'll second that. We created a pretty-printer for Janus/Ada years ago = = > with > the idea of using it to put all of our code into a common style. The = > results > were not very pleasing and we never ended up using it. We still provid= e = > it > to customers, but I don't think many are using it, as I've not had muc= h = > luck > using it. Once (not that long ago) I found that it made a complete mes= s = > out > of task type declarations - it turned out they'd never been implemente= d = > at > all. You'd think someone would report such things if they cared... > > Randy. Development of a really pretty pretty-printer would requires long and = multiple refinement iterations. I us to have some thoughts in that area,= = but never started up such a project (would be time consuming). However, = if = anybody is dreaming about a pretty printer with long time support for = refinement and would be OK to fund it, please anyone, just tell me (just= = drop me an e-mail). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]