On Friday 18 March 2016, André Somers wrote: > Op 18/03/2016 om 09:24 schreef Rutledge Shawn: > > Forcing it on everyone that way will be controversial, because there > > is still some leeway in formatting, whereas automation would remove > > any chance of personal preference, and probably screw up in some > > cases. But we could at least start by adding the clang-format config > > file to git so that it’s available for doing this manually. Then in a > > few years maybe everybody will get used to it enough, and it can be > > refined enough, to become near-universal. > > That's the point: remove the personal preference. Or, make it > irrelevant. You can format your own code localy on your own system > however you like. As soon as it gets integrated, it will formatted > following whatever the standard is anyway. > > So no, I do not think there should be leeway for personal differences > here. Code formatting matters for readability, but it doesn't merrit > long discussions or wasting time fixing -1's because of wrongly placed > spaces. If the formatting needs improvement, improve the script doing > the work, don't do it manually. > There isn't any single unique formatting that follows the rule. Please don't correct code that already follows existing rules, an automatic crappifier would not be a good thing.
And people should always edit in the final result, otherwise they can't pre- format the code, which means we only get automatically crappified formatting. `Allan _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
