[PD-dev] Pd code formatter?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever tried to use indent or some tool to reformat code  
>> to match Miller's code formatting?
>
> As long as one level of indentation is more to the right than the  
> enclosing level, formatting isn't so much of a big deal. What's a  
> big deal is people who use multiple different interpretations of  
> the tab character in the same file. Afair, this happened in  
> devel_0_39 quite a bit.
>
>>  It would be good to have a standard code format, and since the  
>> one that Miller uses it difficult to configure with many editors  
>> and non-standard
>
> Miller's indentation style is pretty commonplace, and his brace  
> placement is even more commonplace. I don't mean that I think that  
> it's good to use it in general, but as long as you want to submit  
> patches to Miller, yes, that's the one to use for sure.
>
>> it would be quite useful to have some automated tool to make sure  
>> everything is in order.
>
> Personally I don't think that automatic formatting is good when it  
> comes to communicating code between people who use the formatting  
> to carry meaning; but between people who want to cancel the  
> potential meaningfulness of formatting, an automatic formatter is  
> the perfect tool, as you can't get any extra information out of  
> anything completely predictable.

Having common code formats is standard practice in any well organized  
projects (check the Linux and GNU standards for examples).  Many have  
it done autmoatically when you check your code in to the repository.

.hc


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