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From: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: using indentation rather than braces
Message-ID: <968@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 19:14:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 16 19:14:10 1986
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Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston)
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
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Summary: Makes life difficult for programs that output other programs

Forgive me if this is too obvious to mention, but it seems to me that using
the indentation information makes life much harder for programs like YACC
and LEX that act by creating C source code.  Now they have to keep track of
what column they are outputting to...

I just remember doing some assembly macros that tried to make their
expansion obvious by "display"ing the code they were generating to the
listing before actually generating it.  There was real gore in getting the
columns lined up right, and in getting meaningful comments...

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