Integrated code formatter

[user1234]

On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 17:09:46 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 12:51:33 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 08:36:18 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 at 03:30:53 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 1/17/2022 6:06 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>>>> Modern formatter, such as clang-format, use a parser, but 
>>>>> the parser generates an IR that as nothing to do with the 
>>>>> traditional AST you'd get out of a regular parser.
>>>>
>>>> What comes to mind is what to do with the comments.
>>>
>>> They must be kept, which is what dfmt does as it follows the 
>>> token stream and *not* the AST.
>>
>> See 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/givmbzmvnjnweozrexgm@forum.dlang.org
>
> yeah dfmt does works like I say 
> https://github.com/dlang-community/dfmt/blob/master/src/dfmt/formatter.d.

It's certainly not an AST walker ;)