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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Coding Standards.	was: a style question
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:56:27 GMT
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In article <6741@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
>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.
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