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

[Manuel Klimek]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Daniel Jasper <djasper at google.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In my opinion, the main advantage of an autoformatter is that its
> output can be declared as canonical and that in organizations that do
> that nobody needs to argue about indentation anymore. If you provide a
> formatting escape hatch, you lose that property.
>

This feature would not benefit organizations as much as it might benefit
small open source projects.

Cheers,
/Manuel

>
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