Is anyone working on a D source code formatting tool?

Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 11 06:44:54 PST 2015


"Jacob Carlborg"  wrote in message news:m8thr2$pag$1 at digitalmars.com...

> Ideally the dmd front end should be available as a library then dfmt 
> should be a separate tool that uses the same front end library as dmd. But 
> I know that we're not there yet.

Well, some of it is.  If somebody wants to work on adding the necessary 
lexer/parser/etc features on the C++ side I'm happy to help get ddmd ready 
to be used for this.

> It's always nice if a tool is built as a library with a with executable on 
> top. This allows for other tools to be built using this library.

Agreed. 



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list