Code Style

[Robert Fraser]

Yup, I've seen Jalopy before.

Well, that _would_ have been an idea (using the JNI), but the formatter is already about 80% done already in pure Java, so... And it uses the AST tree Descent already generates (written in Java), so messing around with JNIifying that doesn't sound very fun at all.

Brad Anderson Wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
> > I can make it possible to execute the formatter from the command line.
> > However, it relies on other parts of the plugin, so I can't really make it
> > completly independent: you'll probably have to download JDK 1.5+, Eclipse,
> > and Descent and set up the options in the UI (unless you're feeling the
> > desire to edit a huge text file...)
> 
> Hmmm... any chance you could write it in D, and use JNI to hook it up to
> Eclipse?  That way, the command-line tool doesn't need all of the Java
> toolchain.  I imagine, though that the ease of using the Java parser already
> gives you too much convenience :(
> 
> 
> Here's what I was referring to in an earlier post: http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/
> 
> BA