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From: tfb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: Prettyprinting comments with XP in CL
In-Reply-To: smh@Franz.COM's message of Wed, 26 Oct 1994 22:11:49 GMT
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* Steve Haflich wrote:
> I have _another_ idea -- I seriously doubt it's "better", only
> differently ugly.

> The Emacs CL code indenter, ...

I was afraid of this.  I think it's really bad that XP doesn't seem to
be able to be made to print comments nicely: this seems to be an
obvious test case for a hairy prettyprinter.  On the other hand, the
Xerox prettyprinter made a very poor job of comments in many cases.

--tim
