[bitc-dev] Syntax of type variables

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:11 AM, William Leslie
<william.leslie.ttg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really think syntax is a big deal these days. if you want to
> read code in a different style, you can always make your editor do
> that....

Outside of the purview of a few high-end hackers, I don't really think
this is true. I certainly can't do this, though I wouldn't claim to be
any sort of expert at driving IDEs.

The real issue, to my mind, is coding standards. Companies, for good
reason, like to have all code on a project written the same way. While
you can have a tool re-format the code, I haven't seen a tool yet that
does a decent job moving the comments around in a consistent way. In
practice, "consistent" means "close enough so that transforming from
layout A to layout B and back results in the identity transformation".

Anybody know a tool that can actually do that? I'm curious.