# Clang format discussion

**URL:** <https://discourse.vtk.org/t/clang-format-discussion/2073>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/clang-format-discussion/2073 "2019-11-08T13:10:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/clang-format-discussion/2073/41 "2019-11-20T19:38:56Z")

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> [@seanm](#):
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> but personally I think it got merged way too fast

I can sympathize. However, with 9.0 coming out in a few weeks, it should land _before_ it.

> [@seanm](#):
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> It seems to have done at least one weird thing to Objective-C++

Indeed. If you’d like to undo that and then add an exclusion for OC++ files, I’d be fine with that; they don’t see much editing anyways.

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