Re: GOP-PROP 3: C++ formatting

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011, 19:48:36 schrieb Graham Percival:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 05:43:26PM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
> > I am surprised you did not turn first to good old indent.  Thu gnu guys
> > give an option set for use with indent.
> 
> indent(1) can't handle C++ code.  I forget exactly what made it
> barf, but I think it was templates.  It might have even been
> classes, though.  I've heard a rumor that they're working on
> updating it for C++ as well, but I haven't seen any results from
> that.

From the indent manpage:
BUGS
[...]
While  an attempt was made to get indent working for C++, it will not do a 
good job on any C++ source except the very simplest.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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