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Re: future of indent?

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From: Brendan Kehoe
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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