Is anyone working on a D source code formatting tool?

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 11 04:49:02 PST 2015


On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 11:04 +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2015-01-10 23:11, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > Next question - standalone tool, or built in to dmd (like Ddoc)?
> 
> Ideally the dmd front end should be available as a library then dfmt 
> should be a separate tool that uses the same front end library as 
> dmd. But I know that we're not there yet.

And written in D :-)

> It's always nice if a tool is built as a library with a with 
> executable on top. This allows for other tools to be built using 
> this library.

dmd, ldc, gdc, dfmt, ddoc, lots of programs one parsing library 
required.

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