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Comment at: clang/unittests/Format/FormatTest.cpp:7652
 
+  verifyFormat("test < a - 1 >> 1;");
   verifyFormat("test >> a >> b;");
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Quuxplusone wrote:
> Quuxplusone wrote:
> > IMO you should use `"test < a | b >> c;"` as your test case here, to 
> > reassure the reader that it doesn't depend on the fact that `... 1;` is 
> > visibly not a variable declaration.
> > Personally I'd also like to see `"test<test<a | b>> c;"` tested on the very 
> > next line, to show off the intended difference between the two. (Assuming 
> > that I understand the intent of this patch correctly.)
> > (I also switched to a bitwise operator just for the heck of it; that makes 
> > this expression just a //very tiny bit// less implausible — but still 
> > highly implausible, to the point where I question why we're special-casing 
> > it.)
> Btw, a much-bigger-scope way to fix this would be to teach clang-format about 
> "input encoding" versus "output encoding." The only time clang-format should 
> //ever// be inserting space in the middle of `>>` is if it's translating 
> C++11-encoded input into C++03-encoded output. If the input is known to 
> already be C++03-encoded, then breaking up an `>>` token into a pair of `> >` 
> tokens is //guaranteed// to introduce a bug.
> Right now, my impression is that clang-format has a concept of "output 
> encoding" (i.e. "language mode") but has no way of knowing the "input 
> encoding."
Thanks for the feedback. Your 2 test suggestions make sense to me; I've updated 
the patch diff. I hadn't considered teaching clang-format input encoding, but 
that does sound like the preferable long term solution. This patch is intended 
to be a lightweight fix to fix a very narrow use case.


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