Solution for Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption(tm)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Alhough it wouldn't necessarily even need to be a full-fledged source 
>> formatter. Just something to sanitize the whitespace between 
>> start-of-line and anything non-whitespace would be a huge improvement 
>> *and* be cross-language.
>
> I think that's a great idea. Yesterday, I wrote the following program and 
> added it to the dmd makefile so that all checkins and installs run the 
> source code through it first. I welcome improvements. The current version 
> replaces tabs with spaces, and removes trailing whitespace.
>

Sounds great.

> If someone is ambitious, a full fletched D source code pretty printer 
> would be valuable that anyone could use, and which all Phobos source code 
> could be run through in order to enforce a common style.

For bonus points, they could expose it as a library so editors and other 
tools can make use of it without shuffling everything through command-line 
params, stdout and the filesystem.