Still not compatible with Java 5.

thanks

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:46:37 -0700, James McGill
<jmcgill@cs.arizona.edu> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

Objectively it really boosts productivity even if it is frustratingly
slow at times.  It seems to need time to get "warmed up" on itself, a
project or file.

The singularly most frustrating thing is its refusal to reformat if
there are any syntax errors.  If I ever unbalance a () or {} I am in
for a long hunt.

Perhaps someone could write a plugin to make a good guess at where ()
{} are missing or needed.

When you inserted a } it would tag it with a comment saying what it
was the end of, and would ENFORCE those comments in future.

It is incredible the degree of control the Eclipse formatter gives
you. I can't believe how many asymmetric micro configuring decisions
it took for me to get the formatter to produce "normally formatted"
code.

The other magic is once you have discovered a better format, redoing
your entire universe of code to the new standard is only a few clicks
away.

Someone may write a formatter that gleans the rules you like just by
looking at a sufficiently large sample of your own hand-formatted
code, or your boss's! I had a boss who was utterly fanatical about
code formatting. He put Monk to shame with his additional rules for
what was acceptable.

Most of the large code samples on my website were formatted by Eclipse
-- any code snippet that has a class name beginning Test..
e.g.  TestJTextArea http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jtextarea.html

The small ones were done by SlickEdit.

   Eclipse is free (both as in free beer, and as in freedom), but can be
tricky to learn to use at first.

http://www.eclipse.org/

   - Oliver

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thanks I'll look at that