Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Style rules for C shops
Message-ID: <2584@geac.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 13:06:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2584
Posted: Thu Apr 14 09:06:06 1988
References: <528@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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Organization: The Geac Variation Department.
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In article <528@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>Hi net.people,
>
>      I am interested in knowing how various C shops implement
>company-wide style guidelines.  It strikes me that it would be
>madness to allow everybody to have their own style, as they can
>be *so* different that it would be difficult for others with a
>radically different style to maintain down the road.  On the
>other hand, it seems like a morale-breaker to have absolute
>strict rules that leave no room for personal style.

  Try invalidating the question (ie, don't make it a choice at all!)

	1) Lay down functioning-of-program standards.
	2) Make anything changed by pretty-printers optional.
	   2.1) Provide "indent", "cb" and "promote/demote"
		available for transforming "mere" style form one
		to another.
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 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
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