Re: [frogs] indentation

["Carl D. Sorensen" <c_sorensen@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

Does astyle work with .scm files?

I looked at the webpage and saw only C, C++, C#, and java.

I'll give it a try sometime, but thought perhaps you might know.

Carl


On 1/9/09 8:10 AM, "Graham Percival" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:38:53PM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>> 
>> On 1/8/09 2:18 PM, "Valentin Villenave" <v.villenave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Perhaps "we" (meaning "you guys") could start listing such
>>> inconsistencies you may find through the source code... This will make
>>> code cleaning easier when the time comes (since I believe code
>>> cleaning is also one of the long-term forg's tasks).
>> 
>> I agree.  I think we'll have frogs do some "code-janitor" work as described
>> in the Request for Help page.  But that will be later.
>> 
>> If we're going to do that, I think we should just do it by file.  No need to
>> track individual occurrences.
> 
> For things like tabs vs. spaces, I suggest looking into something
> like astyle.  First, it's automagic, and second, it's a lot nicer
> to see "whitespace changes" in the changelog -- when you're
> looking for a bug, you knwo that you can skip over that stuff.
> 
> If you think you have nice style options, be it for astyle,
> indent, or any other program, check on -devel for both comments on
> the automatic style, and for overall permission to modify the
> files automatically.
> 
> (I can't imagine Han-Wen refusing such permission, but the owner
> of my second-biggest open-source project refused it for over a
> year.  In the end I just did it and dared him to object.  It
> helped that he was the supervisor for my Master's degree.)
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
> 
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