[MPlayer-dev-eng] reformatting the code discussion (was Offer of help to get me started)

[Evil Kosh]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:19, Anders Rune Jensen wrote:
> Evil Kosh <evil_kosh_uk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > [..]
> >> Ever heard of pretty printers?
> >
> > I think I understand what you are trying to say.  There is however a
> > limit to the amount of automated reformatting tools can do before you
> > have to manually go in and change the formatting in such a way you can
> > rerun the automated reformatting tool again, or complete it manually.
> 
> Apperently not.
> 
> I'm just saying that you would be much better of building a pretty
> printer (or using one already written). This has several advantages to
> your proposal.
> 
> 1) you don't have to mess up cvs. Just write it once and place it in
>    TOOLS/ or something like that.
> 
> 2) people can write code in _their_ style and when someone else wants
>    to read it he just pretty prints the way _he_ wants it to look.

Well, there wouldnt be a need to run or write these tools if everyone
had an agreed style would there? plus I doubt it would mess up cvs at
all.  All it would do is increase the number of commits for a period of
time, then it would become a non-issue because everyone is writing new
code in the agreed style.

> > I'm simply suggesting that people agree on one style and it's something
> > I can help implement.  I'm not trying to make the source beautiful, I'm
> > trying to smooth the code out so it's more readable and accessible.  It
> > was my first thought when I read the code, that it was unreadable in
> > certain parts.  So the first thing I would like to help with, is making
> > it more accessible to people like me.
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Evil Kosh <evil_kosh_uk at yahoo.co.uk>