Patch for clang-format to allow references and pointers to bind differently

[Alp Toker]

On 04/12/2013 22:45, Daniel Jasper wrote:
> --detect-style will be nice, but it is going to be significantly more 
> effort than you might think.

Returning to my idea to "leave X formatting untouched", I imagine this 
might give Ben a chance to get usage out of the tool while also becoming 
a first step towards --detect-style.

The algorithm would be roughly:

for each formatting criterion X, apply X alone to the in-memory buffer 
and count deltas. Report ambiguity if Xn == 0, otherwise select X with 
lowest number of deltas as the detected style variable.

I'm sure there are other ways to do it, so just throwing about the idea 
if only to avoid the perennial debate on what constitutes acceptable 
corner-case styles :-)

Alp.

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