Domingo Alvarez Duarte wrote:
> This is extracted from the go language
> http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html :
>
> Formatting
>
> Formatting issues are the most contentious but the least consequential.
> People can adapt to different formatting styles but it's better if they
> don't have to, and less time is devoted to the topic if everyone adheres
> to the same style. The problem is how to approach this Utopia without a
> long prescriptive style guide.
>
> With Go we take an unusual approach and let the machine take care of
> most formatting issues. A program, gofmt, reads a Go program and emits
> the source in a standard style of indentation and vertical alignment,
> retaining and if necessary reformatting comments. If you want to know
> how to handle some new layout situation, run gofmt; if the answer
> doesn't seem right, fix the program (or file a bug), don't work around it.
>
> As an example, there's no need to spend time lining up the comments on

If we adopt any open source program to code format we can always send 
requests or patchs to make it do what we need.
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