Re: ada writing guide

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

"Jeffrey D. Cherry" <jdcherry@utech.net> writes:

> Regarding Emacs ... I don't use Emacs so this behavior was a
> surprise for me.  I would guess that there must be a way to change
> this behavior within Emacs.  I don't often use the automated layout
> features of my editor since my fingers already do their own
> automated layout. ;)

But your fingers aren't the same as mine.

Mine hit the TAB key and it's all done for me.

It is MUCH better to have a tool do the indentation for you and all
your colleagues so you can recognise one another's work .. you
probably wouldn't like APEX, you have NO control over layout! or
casing, as far as I can tell!

If you have a tool which will do

  procedure x
     (p1 : integer;
      p2 : integer);

you have just what you wanted (all the parameters neatly lined up),
why get antsy about that extra little paren?!

(I realise we will never agree about this, BTW)