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From: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: formatting: somebody post a formatter already!
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Date: 14 Oct 89 20:06:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi's message of 14 Oct 89 16:12:42 GMT

Firstly, let me apologize for not following standard context
repetition; this emacs beast is defying my efforts.

> ...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.

Actually, we're FORWARD to square QUANTUM.

The formatting problem goes away if you give everybody a formatter and
let them run foreign code through it whenever they need to use that
foreign code. Nobody's ever actually LOOKING at the same code, but
then again group debugging over the phone is not recommended in the
first place...