tolf and detab

[Yao G.]

What does idiomatic D means?

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:50:52 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 08/06/2010 08:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I wrote these two trivial utilities for the purpose of canonicalizing
>> source code before checkins and to deal with FreeBSD's inability to deal
>> with CRLF line endings, and because I can never figure out the right
>> settings for git to make it do the canonicalization.
>>
>> tolf - converts LF, CR, and CRLF line endings to LF.
>>
>> detab - converts all tabs to the correct number of spaces. Assumes tabs
>> are 8 column tabs. Removes trailing whitespace from lines.
>>
>> Posted here just in case someone wonders what they are.
> [snip]
>
> Nice, though they don't account for multiline string literals.
>
> A good exercise would be rewriting these tools in idiomatic D2 and  
> assess the differences.
>
>
> Andrei


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