> > Don't you just love it when the young guys (re)discover the wheel and > > think it's cool. > > The particular young guys involved are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
Yes - I know that. I was actually going for a friendly dig at Domingo - but I guess I missed. Sorry to all concerned for the confusion. Regarding the "go" thing, I actually quite like it as an idea. I followed along a lot of the stuff Rob Pike did on inferno in general and limbo in particular, and generally agreed with his ideas, so I was always a bit sorry that didn't do better and win out over java et al. And he (RP) was very courteous answering my brain-dead questions about it, even though he clearly had better things to do! As was BWK, now I think about it. > > > Time was when we always ran lint or cb... > > I myself am a young guy so I don't know about 'cb', but lint didn't > handle formatting, did it? No, lint did not, though some versions of cb (C beautifier) would. I think maybe some lints would? I never used one that did, though. But generally the point of lint was to point out where you had gone wrong, but let you fix it yourself - reinforcement by repetition! > > Anyway, I like the gofmt approach, Hmmm I dunno though. I've struggled with the python formatter thing in the past, where it forced me to break up some long lines. The resulting code complied with the coding rules, but was completely unreadable... I worry that this might end up the same - rules applied in the face of common sense! > just please don't mix tabs and spaces. > Well, left to my own devices it would be spaces only all the time, so I guess we agree on that. -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
