[cfe-dev] clang-format and "ASCII art" formatting

[Daniel Jasper]

Hi all,

although I think we can make clang-format (clang/lib/Format) format more
and more pieces of C++ according to a specific style, I am convinced that
there are cases where automatic formatting is not the right solution.

An example is:
http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ParseExpr_8cpp-source.html line 60-90. Here,
careful human thought leads to much more readable code then simply
following a style guide.

In order to handle such cases and still be able to auto-format entire
files, I propose to add certain markers around areas of a file that
clang-format should not touch. Does anyone have thoughts on this? How would
we best design this? Add special comments like "// NO clang-format {"?

Cheers,
Daniel
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