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Merge pull request #16 from tweag/fd/noconfig

Support no configuration.

commitbeaa52191d75a237daa48cff62072d66efda5d7b authorMathieu Boespflug <mboes@tweag.net> dateFri 11 Jan 2019, 23:04 (8 years ago) parent71d89ae66b22d7
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@@ -306,10 +306,11 @@ other aspect, and that's what counts.
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307307### Configuration
308308
309−There should be some configuration but at this point I'll leave this section
310−empty. Personally I'm OK with imposing “one good style” and only allowing
311−users to tweak indentation levels. Others will probably disagree. I generally
312−like the philosophy of [this
309+We are not allowing to configure any aspect of the formatter. A module
310+might be used in multiple projects, and we prefer to have it formatted
311+the same in all of them.
312+
313+See this [this
313314post][hindent-5-blog] by Chris Done (the author of Hindent) which says that
314315as long as the default style is conventional and good it doesn't really
315316matter how code gets formatted. Consistency is more important.