Solution for Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption(tm)

Bane branimir.milosavljevic at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 11:44:02 PDT 2010


> It would be a start. Used by itself it would be a bit of a hassle, but 
> having it hooked up to auto-run upon checkout/commit or upon save/load in 
> the editor (this would ideally be better since you can double-check the 
> reults before committing) would be pretty much what I already had in mind as 
> a solution.

My thinking the same.

> 
> Alhough it wouldn't necessarily even need to be a full-fledged source 
> formatter. Just something to sanitize the whitespace between start-of-line 
> and anything non-whitespace would be a huge improvement *and* be 
> cross-language. 
> 

Only thing to be taken into special consideration are multi line strings. Sanitizing them would produce errors. Some kind of lexer or advanced regexpr match might be required.
> 




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