Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@btinternet.com> writes:

> Much of the debate on aesthetics would be needless if there was a good
> freely available non-proprietary tool for reformatting the code, much like
> the C world has 'indent'.

There is. It's called ada-mode for Emacs. Combined with the equally
free gnat style checker, it's a great tool.

What more do you want?

> Then all you do is specify a company wide set of flags for the tool
> and insist that all code is run through the tool with those flags
> before checking it into the code libraries.

Exactly what our Ada style guide says:
http://fsw.gsfc.nasa.gov/library/standards.html
 
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