Tangential topic - a while ago there was a thread/discussion about
adopting something like spotless/palantir-java-format for automated
formatting.
Whilst a massive change to the code base, which can (potentially) cause
horrors for open branches/PRs unless rebased with care and also
reformatted - but also quite useful /once/ adopted, as such concerns as
the above largely disappear, and any wonky/horrible formatting that
comes up is often more a smell that maybe the code should be cleaner, or
split up more.
I don't recall any definitive decision being made either way, the topic
just seemed to stalemate (at least as far as I saw).
Palantir/spotless does at least require JDK 11+ I believe so that's a
big blocker, at least as far as the build JDK goes.
Mark (with 2cents)
On 15/10/23 3:10 pm, Joseph Kesselman wrote:
My experience is that they can actually be useful in expressing things
like preferred code formatting style in importable/executable form.
