On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:05:37PM +1030, a little birdie told me
that Greg Lehey remarked
> On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 14:16:25 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> It would be nice if style(9) documented the options to give indent(1)
> >> to match the `approved' layout convections. (This would reduce the
> >> effort involved in importing large chunks of code).
> >
> > This is impossible, since indent(1) is buggy and out of date with both
> > KNF and C.
>
> Well, you can do a certain amount. In fact, I use GNU indent and
> achieve a reasonable approximation. It would be nice to import it,
> but it doesn't comply with style(9) :-)
indent(1) is EVIL! :)
I just recently (~month.5) had to completely reformat a mid-sized program
(~70k lines), and I had to rereformat the whole thing after indent got
done with it. It couldn't even handle:
}
else /* comment */
{
It would extend the comment over the ENTIRE following code block until it
hit another comment to end it.
Sorry, I still get twitchy when the word 'indent' is said...
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