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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: formatting: somebody post a formatter already!
Message-ID: <849@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 14 Oct 89 16:12:42 GMT
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Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
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In article <2526@hub.UUCP> pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu writes:
>Seems to me all this not-so-recent discussion of Pascal formatting is
>a bit... irrelevant. <dodging rotten vegetables>
>
>Somebody out there HAS a Pascal source formatter; I know it! And s/he
>probably even has the Pascal source!
>
>We could end all this formatting bickering if that person would just
>post the damn thing.

In the case of Turbo Pascal, the Turbo Professional package has a
source code formatter.  But if it is anything to go by,
standardization issues will not be resolved by formatters, because a
good formatter has many options for alternative formats.  So one
would have to agree on the options.  Thus we are back to square one. 

I do not want take sides in any bickering, but I think that a good
point was made in reminding us that in large programming projects
with several people involved formatting is an issue.  This is
natural, since formatting can be considered one aspect of
documentation. 

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