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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Formatting
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On October 13, 2004 03:31 pm, Ed Burnette wrote:
> If there was one format pass (wasn't that was already done? or was that
> just Platform/Core?) and if everybody used the same format rules
> (REGARDLESS of what they are, who cares?) and if everybody ran format
This was the plan, and we did do a format pass. We used the built-in Java
Conventions.
Unfortunately, several of Platform UI's team members soon after detected bugs
in the formatter itself. It seems that sometimes the formatter decides to
switch between tabs and spaces. See Bug 69917
("https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=69917";).
While at first I had hoped that the bugs would eventually be ironed out, it's
become increasingly clear that the formatter will always have bugs. And even
if the bugs are fixed, the act of fixing the bugs changes the formatter
behaviour. This makes formatting a moving target...
cheers,
d.
