[SAOC 2023] dfmt rewrite - Weekly update #1

[RazvanN]

On Monday, 25 September 2023 at 16:12:51 UTC, Tim wrote:
> On Monday, 25 September 2023 at 08:26:33 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> So the fundamental problem comes from the fact that the author 
>> wants to do smart stuff with line/column limits. dfmt does not 
>> even have a line limit option, so that problem does not apply 
>> here. Even if we were to add it, that could be viewed as a 
>> separate project of transitioning dfmt to a better 
>> representation.
>
> I think dfmt has options for line limits:
> ```
>     --soft_max_line_length
>     --max_line_length
> ```

Yes, those refer to the length of a specific line, but the OP was 
also referring to constraints for the number of lines in a 
specific file, so when I said line limit I was referring to the 
limit of a line, rather to the limit of the number of lines in a 
file.