Artistic Style - News

# Artistic Style News

> ### Artistic Style 1.19

> > Most changes this release were again concerned with the options pad=oper and pad=paren. The formatting still worked a little different if both options were declared than if only one was used. The problems with distinguishing the multiplication operator from pointers, and of separating an object from the member access pointer (->) were fixed.

> > A new option, unpad=paren, was added. This will undo the pad=paren, pad=paren-out and pad=paren-in options. It can be used alone or with pad=paren-out or pad=paren-in. If used alone it will unpad all parens that have been previously padded. If used with a paren padding option, the paren padding option will take precedence and only the unnecessary padding will be removed. This will enable the paren padding to be changed in one formatting run.

> > Padding to paren headers (e.g. "if", "for", "while") was reinstated. This was done in previous releases if pad=oper was used. Since most people used this option, the headers were usually padded. The general opinion was that they looked better padded, especially in the case of "else if" statements. Since it is a minor point, it was not made an option.

> > This is the third release of Artistic Style in the last four months. The reason for the frequent releases was the number of pervasive errors in the formatting. In the future there will probably be two or three new releases per year, or one every four to six months. It will take about three years to make all the changes that are planned at this time. The releases will be a combination of fixes, changes to formatting, and new features.