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

[Dan Lipsa]

+1
I found the VTK formatting very foreign when I first start using VTK - now
I got used with it.

For everything else I used the format you propose.
Dan


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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