[vtk-developers] PROPOSAL: Changing VTK's indentation style

[David E DeMarle]

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David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> What would you think of changing VTK's indentation style from:
>
> if ()
>   {
>   // ..
>   }
>
> to
>
> if ()
> {
>   // ...
> }
>
> ?
>
> Our current style (modified Whitesmiths I am told) is used only by very
> few projects,
> mostly related to VTK ones (ITK, CMake). It is poorly supported by some of
> the newer editors
> that are widely popular (Sublime, TextMate etc.) and IMO foreign to the
> new generation
> C++ developers.
>
> The style I propose is modified Allman style - with indentation changed
> from 4 to 2 spaces.
> It is much more common.
>
> If approved by the community, we would change VTK wholesale. This should
> not be
> an issue for history as git blame/annotate can be told to skip white
> spaces.
>
> Best,
> -berk
>
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