On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 4:50 PM <wkitt...@windstream.net> wrote: > one person's PrettyPrint format is another's ugly-as-sin ;) >
One last thing: this is generally, as far as I'm concerned, a nitpicky non-reason to exclude a useful feature when you consider the simple fact that anyone who thinks Pascal code at large, in the wild, has any kind of consistent formatting is kidding themselves. Even FPC, which uses a not-seen-anywhere else GCC-alike style that I can absolutely live with despite the fact that I'm not really a fan of it, does not manage to follow it consistently. The compiler sources are full of files that mix tabs and spaces despite the fact that AFAIK only spaces are ever supposed to be used. There's also a large number of places where you'll find stuff like one-space indentation that makes begin and ends not line up properly, and such. My diff against the trunk version of "scanner.pas" for example appears as though it changes far more than it really does, because while I tried to follow the "FPC style" down to the letter, the fact that various bits of surrounding code did NOT follow it properly made detection of unrelated "changes" unavoidable. TLDR: In my perfect world, all Pascal code everywhere would be written strictly according to the "Borland Style Guide". I am fully aware that this is not reality, however, and that it never will be, and so I resign myself to the fact that it *does not actually matter that much.*
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