Re: Code formatter

[Chris Snyder]

Graham Percival wrote:
> I know that you're thinking "this is ridiculous", but unless
> somebody does it, newbies will continue to face this difficulty.
> This job won't get done by itself.

Yes, I do think it's ridiculous. As I understand, you're saying, "go 
find a tool that makes the code conform to a standard we haven't defined 
yet."

I've found such a tool. I'm sure it's already installed on all of the 
developers' machines. For more information, run "man cat". Windows users 
can probably use "type" instead.

Why should I (or anyone else) spend so much time wrangling with a 
formatting tool to get it to comply with what I think the standard is 
(or should be), only to be told, "Sorry, that standard isn't 
acceptable"? Shouldn't the standard be set first? If so, I contend that, 
as Bertalan says, "Someone, a lead architect should decide upon rules." 
I feel I'm already being pretentious - imagine me trying to tell Han-Wen 
and Jan how to format their whitespace.

Again agreeing with Bertalan, I think we need some fascism here. I don't 
see how this will ever be accomplished via a "grassroots" effort.

-Chris