> You've already convinced me, but you originally described a problem > where emacs' paragraph formatting would incorrectly rearrange > multi-line C++ comments. Out of personal curiosity, does emacs > actually have a bug in this regard or not?
It happens to work correctly in a well-formed C++ test file. I've seen it mess up reformatting in other types of documents. Heck, I've seen it take a large fully-formed document and turn it into a single monolithic paragraph. > What do you think of a guideline that says "multiple inheritance is > discouraged in general, but if you think multiple inheritance of > pure-virtual (interface) classes is better than the alternatives, > email the list and/or module maintainers for specific guidance"? I think *every* style guideline should allow for the maintainers to revisit them on a case-by-case basis.
