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+Language:        Cpp
+AccessModifierOffset: -4
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: Align
+AlignArrayOfStructures: Left
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignConsecutiveMacros: true
+AlignEscapedNewlines: DontAlign
+AlignOperands:   true
+AlignTrailingComments: true
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Inline
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: Inline
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: TopLevelDefinitions
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes
+BinPackArguments: false
+BinPackParameters: false
+BraceWrapping:
+  AfterClass:      true
+  AfterControlStatement: false
+  AfterEnum:       false
+  AfterFunction:   true
+  AfterNamespace:  false
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: false
+  AfterStruct:     true
+  AfterUnion:      false
+  BeforeCatch:     false
+  BeforeElse:      false
+  IndentBraces:    false
+  SplitEmptyFunction: false
+  SplitEmptyRecord: false
+  SplitEmptyNamespace: false
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: All
+BreakBeforeBraces: Custom
+BreakBeforeInheritanceComma: false
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: false
+BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeComma
+BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations: false
+BreakStringLiterals: true
+ColumnLimit:    120
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:'
+CompactNamespaces: false
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: false
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: true
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+FixNamespaceComments: true
+ForEachMacros:
+  - forever # avoids { wrapped to next line
+  - foreach
+IncludeIsMainRegex: '(Test)?$'
+IndentCaseLabels: false
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+JavaScriptQuotes: Leave
+JavaScriptWrapImports: true
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false
+MacroBlockBegin: ""
+MacroBlockEnd:   ""
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 4
+ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: false
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
+PenaltyBreakAssignment: 150
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 300
+PenaltyBreakComment: 500
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 400
+PenaltyBreakString: 600
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 50
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 300
+PointerAlignment: Left
+ReflowComments:  true
+SortIncludes:    false
+SortUsingDeclarations: false
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true
+SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: false
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: false
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        c++17
+TabWidth:        4
+UseTab:          Never