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Re: [IMP-dev] Formatting suggestion



Daniel Russel wrote:
> A number of projects I have been involved in replace the "namespace  
> IMP {" and "} // namesapce IMP" sorts of lines with  
> "IMP_BEGIN_NAMESPACE" and "IMP_END_NAMESPACE" or  
> "IMP_DOMINO_BEGIN_NAMESPACE" "IMP_DOMINO_END_NAMESPACE". Such a change  
> has several advantages:
> - the close braces are automatically labelled
> - you aren't constantly fighting the editor's desire to indent because  
> you are in a nested block
> - IMP_DOMINO is once conceptual unit, and having it on two separate  
> lines just conceals that
> - we can have macros for internal namespaces so we have standard names  
> for that
> - it is a pretty simple matter to write a sed script which changes  
> most of the existing code to use these macros

Agreed. I will update accordingly.

	Ben
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