[Development] Resolving coding style contentions

[Sze Howe Koh]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 16:29, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
>
> > On 19 Nov 2018, at 21:59, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 22:41, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Monday, 19 November 2018 12:03:06 PST Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> >>> I personally tend to split such things after an opening parenthesis.
> >>> Getting back to allowing ctor-initializers to be written
> >>> with a comma starting a line, I think we should just allow it; the
> >>> benefit of not having noise in a diff seems to outweigh
> >>> the minor aesthetics of it.
> >>
> >> It is allowed, unless the maintainer objects to it.
> >>
> >> I object to it in QtCore.
> >
> > I'm suggesting that you stop objecting to it.
>
> I suggest that we stop arguing about coding styles by defining one through a tool (aka clang-format and one format file for all of Qt). I know that one will never be perfect for all cases (and that you can always find corner cases where manual formatting might be slightly better), but consistency and finally stopping to argue about coding style esp. in code reviews (by automating things) is more important.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars

Here's a small record of intent:
https://wiki.qt.io/index.php?title=Qt_Coding_Style&type=revision&diff=34756&oldid=34328

I wanted to link Lars' email, but that seems to have disappeared from
the archive.


Regards,
Sze-Howe