On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:28:16 +0200 Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz@student.HTW-Berlin.de wrote:
So coding style *is* important and should be machine enforced, hence I think Nicks script is a great idea.
I agree to all of that, except for the last part. I don't like these scripts, since teaching programmers in the first place on a good coding style in is the better way to enforce it. The learning curve on project-specific style is mostly quite short, while this scripts make programmers just careless about coding style in general (not project
The script is only intended to reformat some annoying but easy to script alignment, we still need to write the code style spec. If anyone wants to make a start on it... ;-)
specific), and might be buggy at times messing up style everywhere.
The script is incapable of fixing all but trivial things, and if it messes up anything the script must be fixed or not used.
Regards, Nick