Re: the competition's expm vs ours

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Weber
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2008, 10:52 +0100 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Weber
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2008, 07:19 +0100 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
>> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Thomas Weber
>> >> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:55:33PM +0100, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>> >> >> > Yes, but then the customizations for the files depend on users
>> >> >> > individual settings.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Which is good, isn't it?
>> >> >
>> >> > No, it isn't. I can adapt to whatever style Octave chooses, but please:
>> >> > only *one* style, and that one enforced with an iron fist.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I must be missing something important here. What *style* are you talking 
>> >> about?
>> >> The coding style, incl. indenting & whitespace, is part of the source,
>> >> and that should be fixed.
>> >
>> > Yes, and Emacs C++ mode sets some default (ie, indent is 2 spaces, ...)
>> >
>> >> But I still don't see what good is this:
>> >> /*
>> >> ;;; Local Variables: ***
>> >> ;;; mode: C++ ***
>> >> ;;; End: ***
>> >> */
>> >>
>> >> What does it do, other than telling Emacs that this is a C++ source?
>> >> Isn't it possible to configure Emacs so that it can tell from the file
>> >> extension?
>> >
>> > Yes, but I'm thinking more along the lines that different projects may
>> > have different source guidelines for C++ files.
>> >
>>
>> Huh. So Emacs' default C++ settings exactly match Octave's coding
>> standards? I'm just missing the style information here.
> I hope they do. I have nothing configured in Emacs with regards to C++
> and John has never complained.

John is not a computer. I really doubt he has time always scan all lines.
Besides (please don't take this offensively), the first C++ changeset
from you I just picked at random, namely 349a555729a9 (8353 in
Savannah) violates the guidelines: It contains tabs, contrary to our
convention. I see this is probably because the original source
contained them and you just didn't notice, but you see that Emacs did
not save you.

> Actually, I used vim quite a lot in the
> past for the actual editing. Before sending a diff, I just opened the
> file  in Emacs and let Emacs re-indent the lines.
>
>        Thomas
>
>

I'm against a rule such as "the indenting style for Octave sources is
Emacs' default settings", because that way, I can't check, and I
really don't want to do the procedure you just described.

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz