Re: religious wars

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> [snip]
> ... because although I really dislike the ...
>
>     if( arg )
>         x = FuncCall( arg );

Ok, I guess I'll avoid starting a war here. But, IMO the second line is 
right, and the first line should be 'if ( arg )' :-).

That said, C != English. IMO they are allowed to have different rules 
for where to put spaces. (And... perhaps some people whose native 
language != English find the GNU coding style broken for the same 
reasons you think the alternatives are broken :-).)

>   It does lead me to wonder, though, if there isn't a market for a cross
> between CVS and GNU indent that transforms the code on check-out and check-in,
> so that anyone who checks out a sandbox gets the files formatted in their own
> favourite style, and can write code however they most prefer, and everyone
> else sees it in /their/ own favourite style, and nobody even has to know or
> care what the actual underlying format looks like at all.

You mean 'astyle'? :-)

/me starts whistling "Triangle Man", as it seems appropriate.

--
Matthew
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