Learning D - first steps and best practices

[Stefan Larsson]

On 2013-10-01 19:32:05 +0000, qznc said:

> 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.

You could also store the code not as text but as a datastructure like a 
parse tree. Then the editing environment is free to handle this 
information the way it wants...