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From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Automated tools for verifying C style compliance?
Message-ID: <5815@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 90 18:23:16 GMT
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In article <4990@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM> kyleb@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM (Kyle Bernard) writes:
>I've recently read over the C style guidelines from giza.cis.ohio-state.edu
>(128.146.8.61) and it seems their usefulness is very limited due to the lack
>of automated compliance verficiation tools.

Why bother with compliance checking tools. Wouldn't the same effort be
spent more productively on a pretty-printer that reformat source to whatever
formatting standard you prefer, and let people write as they wish?

<I'm referring only to whitespace placement here, not to
substantive issues of variable naming, etc, etc.>
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