code folding

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On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 15:18:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 00:38:12 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>
>> FYI: The "you must implement my feature request or D will 
>> never succeed" attitude is rather common and never helpful. 
>> Not to mention that such an argument would be demonstrably 
>> false: every popular language without the feature you want has 
>> apparently succeeded despite not having said feature.
>
> This is a little different, however, in the sense that there is 
> no reason to add a feature to the language to do what is 
> requested. If you use Emacs, you can get the same thing in any 
> language using comments:
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FoldingMode

and I agree that having an such a feature(for #region) would 
better be handled by comments(assuming it, itself, can be 
commented out easily). But either way, we do not have the 
capabilities with D in the first place. I do not use Emacs but 
the Visual D, which I assume is the sponsored IDE for D.


> This is an issue for the IDE, not for the language, and 
> changing the language would not have any effect on IDE support 
> for code folding.

Remember, it is not just about code folding(which seems to be the 
common misconception). The cold folding is a sort of byproduct of 
struct defining language features... of which, D has very little 
of. Version, is a good one for certain things, but useless here 
for code structure itself.

My original statement was if D had the ability to do proper code 
folding rather than resorting to hacks and it has been derailed 
in to an language vs ide battle.

So, with all the bloviating, all I have arrived at is that my 
original hack is still the only way to get the cold folding I 
wanted(the original use case I had in mind, even though I'd 
rather have proper code structuring support in general). 
Generally when even a hint of a suggestion of a language addition 
is created, the worms come out to party...