On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:46:02PM +0200, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
[Yes, I'll shut up in a minute]
PROPOSAL
Currently, pretty printing doesn't keep the original assignment operator of the source but replaces it with "_". It should however have three modi
- keep it (only applicable if source is available)
- always use _
- always use :=
[...]
What I'd like to see (taking this to extremes) is a pretty-printer that is highly configurable so that everybody can define their own favourite indentation/formatting style. (Think indentation styles in emacs' C mode.) Choice of assignment operator would, of course be part of this.
This way, we can all have our favourite styles automagically. Plus, a reformat won't erase your painstakingly hand-formatted code into the default style, nor will the code browser show all sorts of spurious differences between the same method but with different formats (well, not if it first formats them both to the same style, that is.)
--Chris