[PD-dev] Pd code formatter?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know why I started talking about that, I could 
have guessed that you would be all about standards of other projects and 
not really enjoy talking about a communication theory of source code.

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