From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
Cc: linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Indention - why spaces?]
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:31:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021231163154.GD9423@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E11C4E2.2050306@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
> Larry, you can save yourself a lot of trouble, time and money: Create an
> indent configuration file and tell your people to use it. That is
> exactly why indent was written many years ago.
Indent is fine as a first pass, it doesn't handle everything properly.
If it did, I think I would have figured it out by now. And no, I'm
not going to go fix indent, I looked at the problems and the fixes
and decided to pass. Some of them just aren't worth fixing in
indent.
Besides, I really don't believe in giving people crutches, I believe
in teaching them what it is I want and why. That tends to stick.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-31 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-31 16:25 [Fwd: Re: Indention - why spaces?] Herman Oosthuysen
2002-12-31 16:31 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-12-31 17:11 ` Herman Oosthuysen
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