dfmt 0.1.0

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 4 March 2015 at 15:26:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I try to use DCD when working with Emacs for D code, but I keep
> forgetting to start the server :-( I would certainly be happy 
> to commit
> to using dfmt just as I use gofmt in Emacs. As long as the 
> variation
> from my preferred style is not to much I can live with a "One 
> True
> Style" (*).

That means that the Emacs plugin needs to start it automatically.

> There ought to be for the compiler/formatter toolchain 
> otherwise there
> will be problems. And if there is a D parser as library and it 
> works why
> would anyone want another parser?

Implementing a separate parser based on the language spec has 
helped to find problems with the language spec. Having "One True 
Implementation" can lead to problems as well.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10233

> (*) The exception is of course Phobos style which I find so 
> annoying I
> can't read code formatted that way.

By default dfmt tries to output Phobos style code. There is an 
option to use a different brace style and another one to use tabs.