Learning D - first steps and best practices

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 19:32:08 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> I confess that I don't understand why so many people are 
>> fixated on having a
>> standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that 
>> most everyone
>> disagrees on what counts as good style. What little we have in 
>> terms of official
>> style guidlelines for D can be found here: 
>> http//:dlang.org/dstyle.html
>
> I think nowadays programmers expect their language to come with 
> more opinion and best practices. In contrast, the C++ world is 
> too fragmented for consistent advice.
>
> I believe, the best solution would be to include an 
> auto-formatter (like go fmt), so people can simply reformat the 
> code before and after editing.

That may be, but we are not working with C++, python, Go, etc 
programmers. We are dealing with D programmers, and they can't 
agree on formatting. There are also many cases which require 
breaking rules for readability.

For me, if the program didn't format brackets on the same line I 
wouldn't use it. If you start making things configurable, may as 
well improve indent's support for D.