DMD coding style rules?

[asman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 13:57:33 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "asman"  wrote in message 
> news:maojdlxhbwuhxqrmvvjf at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> is there? if so, where is it? Also, I see dmd is written in 
>> C++ but still uses C style to do stuff eg, printf() instead of 
>> cout. Is this why C++ libraries can increase a lot size (and 
>> performance?) of executable which current style don't?
>
> There are no formal rules that I'm aware of (unless somebody 
> added them to the wiki) but the (frontend) code is fairly 
> consistent.
>
> The C-ish style is mostly due to age and Walter's preferences.  
> This has turned out to be a huge advantage as it makes 
> conversion to D much easier than C++-style code with heavy stl 
> usage etc.

Thanks very much. In this case I can assume there's no std::
stuff and it isn't allowed, correct?