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

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Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:hp087r$19la$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > 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.
> 
> 

Will it work with multiline strings?

char[] s = r""" I am very
     wide

string""";