Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:37:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But it's not clear to me why you're allergic to the perl wrapper?
> My allergy is to the totality of the process, not to the perl component.
> It's a bit weird to enforce a coding style that no upstream indent tool
> supports. But what's weirder is that, *having forked the indent tool*,
> it still doesn't implement the desired style, and the perl wrapper tries
> to work around that.
> It would be more reasonable if the forked C program knew how to handle
> the stuff for which the perl script currently has kludges to munge the
> source code before indenting and then un-munging afterwards.
[ shrug... ] If you want to put cycles into that, nobody is stopping
you. For me, it sounds like make-work.
regards, tom lane