[Development] clang-format

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 22 June 2018 at 19:39, Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> wrote:
> I cant even get my developers to agree the emacs takes to many fingers, and VI(m) is the only editor they need....
>
> Let alone, where the brackets and spaces belong....
>
> Let alone, if statements on the same line as the conditional....
>
> The problem ive seen, is while you may LOVE the curly brackts on the same line, you will never convince me... 😊

The problem I have with this oft-recurring formatting discussion is
that it's advertised as a big benefit, sometimes
downplaying its cost. It doesn't help me all that much to have
familiar formatting and naming in a translation
unit; that consistency is dwarfed by the effort needed to understand
the logical design of the code to reasonable
modify/refactor/maintain it.

I think it's reasonable and harmless to clang-format new changes; I
continue to be unconvinced of the cost/benefit ratio
of reformatting all of our existing code.