[orbitcpp-list] Re: cpp: Gratuitous code formatting change

[Sam C. <sc...@bi...>]

Chris Waters <xt...@de...> wrote:
> From the info file:
>=20
>   "While an attempt was made to get `indent' working for C++, it will
> not do a good job on any C++ source except the very simple."
>=20
> That's not the (quite) same as not working.  I actually ran indent on
> the example Murray provided, and the result looked fine.  I've also
> used indent on other C++ code in the past and been perfectly satisfied
> with the results.  Maybe we should try out some more complex
> real-world examples, and see if it's good enough for our purposes.

I figured that the stubs and skeletons generated by orbit-idl were far
from simple, and that indent would not be helpful.

And yesterday, out of curiosity (and a desire to be able to actually
read the code I was looking at) I ran indent on some of the generated
code. Nasty, total failure. I'm confident that indent does not solve any
formatting problems for the generated C++ code.
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