[nem-en] loving Nemerle

[Michal Moskal]

On 10/27/05, Kamil Skalski <kamil.skalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today at work we had a short discussion about possibility of having
> auto-formatting always enabled in IDE or even set up script, which
> would reformat sources at every CVS commit. Actually it souded like a
> joke - formatting tools have many problems, sometimes the result of
> formatting is.. *ugly* and also merging the reformatted source code
> from the branch is a hell (ok, maybe if every file were initially
> correctly formatted it wouldn't be a problem).

Actually if the code was stored as a syntax tree it would be possible
to develop better marge tool. Once written it would do much better job
than the regular line-based tools we use today. But it require a lot
of effort to write it.

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   Michal Moskal,
   http://nemerle.org/~malekith/