Coding Standards. was: a style question

[Andy Glew]

    >Since these two programmers disagree about a detail which is easy
    >to embed in a beautifier program, since it depends only on syntax,
    >then a beautifier program should be able to mediate the style
    >disagreement, and allow each programmer to view the other's code
    >consistently with personal preference.

	Interesting consequences for revision control systems may arise
    with such an approach.
    --
	Jon Leech (leech at cs.unc.edu)    __@/

Why?  If all program text can be massaged by the beautifier, run all
text through the beautifier to some "standard" setting before checking
in.

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Andy Glew, a-glew at uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]