Indenting code?

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Fri Sep 14 20:51:07 UTC 2012


On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Phil Race wrote:

> On 9/14/2012 12:34 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> If we had a well defined formatter tool that we told people they must use, I suppose jcheck could enforce it's use
>> by refusing any changeset where the source hasn't been "properly" formatted.
>> But getting a whole bunch of different tools to do the same formatting? That seems like an exercise in futility.
>> 
> 
> Although I suppose we already do this for the tabs and extra spaces at the end of lines for jcheck,
> we also need to remember all the 3rd party code we have and the pain that would be when we
> update it. I like to make zero to few changes to such code and live with their preferences - even
> those that irk me.
> 
> -phil.

A very valid point, we would need to know which files we would enforce these rules, and that could be
very tricky.

Seems like we have lots of better things to do and maybe this just needs to be visited each time a source
file or set of sources gets a major change.

-kto


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