On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Vassil Dichev <vdic...@apache.org> wrote:
> > What I don't like about IDEs is that they often gratuitously format > > your code, assuming everyone must have the same preferences, and > > there's no way to configure it (or at least few people do). For > > instance, in several of the ESME files I can already see that > > indentation spaces are substituted by 8 tabs, which looks pretty awful > > with my settings (tab=2 spaces). Besides, this is against any Scala > > conventions that I've seen. > > To clarify, I don't mean that I don't recommend IDEs, I just think > it's harder to solve the problem of more or less uniform style. Many > IDEs are flexible enough to configure formatting details on a > fine-grained level. The problem is, we can't force everyone to use the > same IDE, or to use an IDE at all, for that matter :) > > It would be interesting to have a command-line tool to do optional > formatting. I don't see anything like that for Scala, which is similar > to what e.g. Jalopy did for Java. > Yeah... I'd love a command-line Scala formatting tool. -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics
