On 2013-10-04, at 18:31, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 04-10-2013, at 9:23 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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>> That said, I could live with your version below, in particular if it was automatically produced. It just doesn't feel as nice as the hand-formatted one which even takes into account the semantics of keywords to find suitable breaks.
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> We need a pragma to describe how a method's name is formatted by automagic formatters.
> copyTo: resultBuf from: start to: stop) from: buf startingAt: firstInBuf normalize: nFactor dcOffset: offset
> <pragma format: (3 5 7)>
> 	self wibble: buf….
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> The pragma says keep the first 3 keyword fragments together, then the next 2 and then the last 2, all as advisory input


Well, or just use line breaks in the method pattern.

- Bert -