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Article #72060Re: future of indent?
From: Brendan Kehoe
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1992 21:27
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1992 21:27
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schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu wrote:
>mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann) writes:
> Like are there any intentions to make indent C++-literate? ...
> Other useful concepts, like tags, also break down in the face of
> the different sytanx.
>
>Another shortcoming of tags and indent is that they are only
>approximate; they don't parse the input completely.
I think indent needs a complete and utter rewrite...it's such a
hodgepodge right now, you can go nuts trying to fully grasp what it's
doing. (I spent some time trying to see if I could fix anything that
was wrong in it, and eventually gave up.)
--
Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
Widener University Chester, PA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f5f9863701cdb95e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-04-26 14:27:38 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!gatech!news.byu.edu!eff!widener!not-for-mail From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: future of indent? Date: 26 Apr 1992 17:27:38 -0400 Organization: Widener University Computer Science Dept, Chester PA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <tf78aINN99b@betty.cs.widener.edu> References: <s66j=6a.mats@netcom.com> <madH#y8-6@cs.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: betty.cs.widener.edu