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

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

+lots

Like the Scottish who say “Anyone but England”, I would like to emphatically vote in favour of changing VTK’s code style to “Anything, but what we have now”, it certainly can’t get worse.

Yours

JB
PS. It feels like 2006! I made my views felt then (and many times previously), and Berk has criticised my views on it for the last 10 years, so I shan’t say any more!
http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/vtk-Coding-style-Proposed-change-td1251702.html


From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Berk Geveci
Sent: 09 September 2015 15:09
To: VTK Developers
Subject: [vtk-developers] PROPOSAL: Changing VTK's indentation style

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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