Automatically enforce Phobos's styleguide

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/26/2016 09:36 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 19:04:44 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> tl;dr: I want to pull improve Phobos code style for the greater good
>> of having a bot that automatically checks the coding style. This
>> should be quite useful for submitters. I hope we all agree that the
>> time spent "nitpicking" is wasted, we overlook much (see below) and we
>> can do better!
>>
>> Agenda
>> ------
>>
>> The idea is quite simple:
>> 1) Fix one violation for the entire codebase
>> 2) Enable it in the bot.
>> 3) Pick next violation and goto 1)
>
> Great news:
> 1) I submitted a couple of trivial fixes (#4245, #4246, #4247)
> 2) The Travis bot passes :)
>
> As mentioned I decreased the linting to a minimum, but now we do have it :)
> Future work can fix more violations in the Phobos codebase - small low
> hanging fruits include e.g. > 120 lines or undocumented public methods.
>
> For more details:
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4243

Nice initiative. Thanks for doing this. Please stay on 4243 and merge it 
as soon as possible, so we don't have ripples following the style change 
from pulling other diffs. Thx! -- Andrei