Netbean's automatic formatting does a pretty good job with new code.
However, I think the general advice is to not change existing code just
because. When you're dealing with multiple release families, it makes
the merges much more difficult.
Brad
On 9/13/2012 6:18 AM, John Zavgren wrote:
Greetings:
I have a simple question about how to enforce code styles for: java, c, and c++. I know
there are style guides that legislate the indentation, "curly brace and parenthesis
management", etc.
I'm looking for a simple automatic way to transform any source code file so that it's
image is guaranteed to be "correct". No thinking required.
What I normally do is use an open source tool named "indent", e.g.,
indent -bap -bbb -bl -nce -l80 file1.cpp file2.h file3.c file4.java
And, I put an "indent" target in my make files.
Consequently whenever I make something, the very first step is to format the code, and I
know that when I do a check in later on... I never have to think about whether or not the
code conforms to a style guide... because the options I gave to "indent"
implemented this guide. (You can do similar things with emacs too.)
Any ideas?
Thanks!
John Zavgren
john.zavg...@oracle.com
