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Re: Code reformatter added to TheIDE [message #13864 is a reply to message #13863]

Wed, 30 January 2008 13:13

mdelfede
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luzr wrote on Wed, 30 January 2008 12:51

Speaking about it, I am more worried about the coding style. Astyle code is exactly what U++ approach tries to argue with Wink

Well, I'd agree with you if astyle would be made as a part of Upp, but it's only an helper for theide, not upp Smile

IMHO loosing a week or two to make something like astyle from scrath would not be a valuable choice.
Besides of that, astyle patched to use upp containers doesn't look awful, even if it uses pointers to manage stuffs quite a bit.
I had to change just 5(or 6 ?) container variables to use the DeepCopy option, among the lot more used there, so it's not so bad.
(BTW, nice stuff the 'pick semantics broken' error, it saved me a lot of debugging).
Just think as astyle like a black box that does (well, indeed) it's job.
Speaking about coding style, jpeg, tif and so C plugins are not the most elegant pieces of code ever seen !

IMHO, reinventing the wheel makes sense if with that wheel you travel for many km at high speed. Having a ferrari to go shopping at the supermarket near home is not whorth the money !

Ciao

Max

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