[comp.lang.c] Coding Standards. was: a style question

leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) (11/20/90)

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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aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (11/30/90)

    >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.
    --
	Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/

Why?  If all program text can be massaged by the beautifier, run all
text through the beautifier to some "standard" setting before checking
in.

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