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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Arseniy Mukhin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pg_bsd_indent: improve formatting of multiline comments
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:14:17 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 05:01:41PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Given the quality of BSD indent code, I have _always_ found it easier to
> > modify pgindent.  ;-
> 
> :D Initially I thought that the problem was simple enough to solve it
> in C, but this turned out not to be true.

I always found it ironic that a tool designed to make source code easier
to understand like BSD indent is so hard to understand.  Its use of
short variable names alone is confusing.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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