[NIT] Pretty pretting #ifFalse:ifTrue:
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Tue Nov 20 12:38:57 UTC 2001
On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 10:57 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> The general understanding of pretty-printing is that it should
> confine itself to adding and removing layout characters (space, tab,
> line break) and colouring.
I have no idea what is the "general understanding of pretty printing,"
so thus I shall defer.
I never found use for a pretty printer, except perhaps to facilitate the
reading of large hunks of awfully written code. To that end, any
decent-looking semantically equivalent code sufficed. Since even the
worst of Smalltalk code is usually much smaller and more comprehensible,
the pretty-printing tool seems particularly pointless in Squeak even as
a general editor.
Thus, I am curious why some are so interested in this functionality.
Have I been missing out on the party all these years? Perhaps there
could be some utility to such a tool, say, to impose coding standards on
a development team, or to ease code typing to free coders from some
extra keypresses. Is that what folks use pretty-printing for?
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