Indenting and alignment style
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Dec 10 05:07:11 AEST 1988
In article <4733 at mtgzz.att.com> avr at mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes:
>The solution, I think, is to write code in the style that's best for
>you, and use "prettyprinting" tools when reading or editing code written
>in a different style by somebody else.
This would be the solution if prettyprinters were smart enough to equal
the job done by a conscientious programmer. They aren't.
>... Insisting that everyone
>conform to what you happen to like and/or are used to isn't just
>religion, it is neanderthal religion...
No, it's called "having standards", actually.
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