Do you trust the "indent" program?
Ronald S H Khoo
ronald at robobar.co.uk
Thu Dec 27 13:38:28 AEST 1990
kdq at demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
> In article <12184 at sybase.sybase.com> forrest at sybase.com writes:
> > Do you trust 'indent'
> > enough to run it on all your source file without making any mistakes?
> Certainly. Just as soon as I'd proven that the executables were
> bit-for-bit indentical. 8-{)}
And you gotta repeat this process for each and every possible combination
of compile-time #ifdef options. Ugh. It's not a small job. My feeling is
that if the original code were *that* badly indented, it's indicative of
poor quality anyway, and its probably time to rewrite the whole damn lot.
only 1/2 :-)
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