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Tooling developers don’t get to say “it shouldn’t matter”. It does matter, so the tools should account for this.

• twic 7y ago
  clang-format does account for this: if you break your includes into groups with blank lines, clang-format will sort within but not across the groups. That is, clang-format offers a crude but simple API to the programmer to express which headers have order dependency, and which don't. Given that headers can have order dependency, it is sadly part of a C++ programmer's responsibility to know which do, just as it is their responsibility to know which functions have side-effects, etc. If they are using clang-format, it is then their responsibility to communicate this knowledge to it.
  • pdpi 7y ago
    Ok, that is a fairly unobtrusive way to describe dependencies, fair.
  • dleslie 7y ago
    The simplest way to communicate that this anti-feature is unwanted is to add this to your clang-format: SortIncludes: false