Linting standard

[MHCooke]

As a developer, I want to keep all the code looking consistent so that I can read other developers code more easily.

• Choose a linting standard (one with the curly brackets generally on the same line as the thing they're attached to)

[MHCooke]

Clang Format supports a selection styles by default, they have been grouped by brace placement:

In-line:

• LLVM (example)
• Google (example)
• Chromium (example)

New line:

• GNU (example)
• Microsoft (example)

Functions/Classes/Structs new line, rest inline:

• Webkit (example)
• Mozilla (example)

Purely out of personal preference, I would like one from the in-line group. All these coding styles implement a max line length of 80 characters, which I propose increasing to 100 or 120.

The in-line formats all inherit from the google code style, with their own variations. Google style has one main oddity, they put a trailing underscore after class attributes/data members (but not in structs)

See this handy repo for the difference between each major style: https://github.com/motine/cppstylelineup

[bear-in-the-air]

My preference would also be one from the in-line group as I like the compactness. I like the LLVM style the most, it has no major sins, and I like it's enum choice best, but I'm open to other options.

[MHCooke]

LLVM is decent but I have two issues with it, which we might be able to fix:

• preference to omit braces around single line control flow

• and whatever this is:

  Cowboy::Cowboy()
  : Age(45), GunCount(2) {
  std::cout << "I am alive!" << std::endl;
  }

[MarkAHarley]

GNU is my personal favourite but if we're going for one in the in-line group I would go for LLVM. Also I don't mind omitting braces for single line control flow, and those Field initialisations I don't hate but would probably just keep on the first line.

[Jambls]

I'm happy with LLVM.