llvm dev - Jan 2013 - [LLVMdev] LLD vs LLVM coding style...

On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Sean Silva wrote:
> I'm not sure if you're planning on this, but it would be awesome to
> dogfood a clang tool which will migrate e.g. variable names
> automatically to the LLVM style. Writing+using such a tool will
> possibly be easier than manual rename for the task at hand (LLD's
> codebase is not super big yet, so maybe not), and may prove useful in
> the future in other situations
I think a migrator is a short term, backwards looking fix.  I think a better
approach is a forward looking enhancement to clang that would be a way to
describe the project's conventions to the compiler.  It seems like every
company/project has different conventions.  By enabling projects to state their
conventions, the compiler can warn when a convention is not being followed. 
This will make submitting conforming patches way easier, so reviewers can
concentrate on  algorithms and future proofing rather than
"whitespace".

-Nick

Nick Kledzik <kledzik at apple.com> writes:
> I think a migrator is a short term, backwards looking fix.  I think a
> better approach is a forward looking enhancement to clang that would
> be a way to describe the project's conventions to the compiler.  It
> seems like every company/project has different conventions.  By
> enabling projects to state their conventions, the compiler can warn
> when a convention is not being followed.  This will make submitting
> conforming patches way easier, so reviewers can concentrate on
> algorithms and future proofing rather than "whitespace".
++++++1

                               -David