[PATCH] D69764: [clang-format] Add East/West Const fixer capability

Mon Aug 9 12:12:05 PDT 2021

erichkeane added a comment.

In D69764#2935218 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D69764#2935218>, @MyDeveloperDay wrote:

> In D69764#2934666 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D69764#2934666>, @erichkeane wrote:
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>>> Someone internally pointed out the anti-inclusivity of the terminology, so I figured I'd bring it up.
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> I apologise if I'm proliferating that, but could you educate me why its "anti-inclusive" I certainly didn't mean any offence in its use.
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> I'm absolutely OK about dropping east/west especially if we think its going to cause offence and we just want to avoid that.

I apologize in advance to anyone reading this who is affected by this, or knows more about this than I, but my understanding is that "west==left/east==right" propagates the legitimacy of a 'north up' map that was created as a response to the at-the-time-south-up maps having Africa/Asia "above" Europe.  The result is (I think?) a propagation of a euro-centric/euro-supremacy ideology.

Again, thats my 'ELI5' understanding of it.

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