Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!basser!steve
From: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: formatting
Message-ID: <2643@basser.oz>
Date: 15 Oct 89 14:04:58 GMT
References: <2526@hub.UUCP> <849@chyde.uwasa.fi> <2532@hub.UUCP>
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <2532@hub.UUCP> pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu writes:
>
>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 [...]

Unfortunately, this doesn't always work out. Most of the stuff posted
to the sources groups is formatted in a style which I don't like (though
I'm sure its authors think it's fine). It's tempting to just run it
through a formatter to make it look just right for me. Problem is that
when some patches are posted, I'm in trouble. The fact that the author
and I are not "actually LOOKING at the same code" makes patching next
to impossible.

The only solution is to force the rest of the world to adopt my
indenting style - no arguments, ok :-).