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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Indention - why spaces?]
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> Larry, you can save yourself a lot of trouble, time and money: Create an
> indent configuration file and tell your people to use it.  That is
> exactly why indent was written many years ago.

Indent is fine as a first pass, it doesn't handle everything properly.
If it did, I think I would have figured it out by now.  And no, I'm
not going to go fix indent, I looked at the problems and the fixes 
and decided to pass.  Some of them just aren't worth fixing in 
indent.

Besides, I really don't believe in giving people crutches, I believe
in teaching them what it is I want and why.  That tends to stick.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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