Re: Request for help + Re: java.lang.Class patches

[Prof. Etienne M. Gagnon]

Brian Jones wrote:
> I was looking into using Jalopy at one point but the 1.0 version I
> think didn't do proper double indentation for curly's on if/while/for,
> etc.  Suggestions for something that actually matches our "GNU" style
> would be appreciated.

In fact, if you have a pretty good idea of what you want, I could develop a code 
indenter using my SableCC framework.  As Java does have a regular syntax (no 
preprocessor which allows for random syntax), it would be a relatively easy 
thing to do.

But, if there already is a free program that works well, I would go for it.

In the SableVM CVS tree, I pass all the Classpath code through:

find | grep \\.java$ | xargs astyle -jbs2
find | grep \\.java$ | awk '{print "mv " $1 " " $1 ".bak ; cat -s " $1 ".bak > " 
$1 " ; rm " $1 ".bak"}' | sh
find | grep \\.orig$ | xargs rm

All of these programs are Free and available in the "main" Debian distribution.

But, "astyle" only indents lines and curly breaces, it does not pretty-print the 
use of parentheses, etc.  A SableCC derived code indenter could do a 
comprehensive job, as it would be based on the syntax tree of the analyzed class.

Etienne

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