Is anyone working on a D source code formatting tool?
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 10 14:11:19 PST 2015
On 1/10/2015 12:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?
Next question - standalone tool, or built in to dmd (like Ddoc)?
BTW, I think dfmt would be a significant win for D:
1. people expect this sort of thing these days
2. it tends to end bikeshedding arguments about the right way to format things
3. it'll help standardize the format of D code in the D repositories
4. it's simply nice and convenient!
5. it's a great first step when you're faced with fixing someone else's crap code
I don't think it'll be hard to do as a builtin feature of dmd.
My only concern about it is if dfmt is changed, then we get faced with a
blizzard of changes in the D github repositories.
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