Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?

On 2015-01-10 21:17, Walter Bright wrote:
> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?

I have thought about it a couple of times but never started. It would be really nice to have.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:54:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-10 21:17, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?
>
> I have thought about it a couple of times but never started. It would be really nice to have.

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 21:17:29 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:54:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-01-10 21:17, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?
>>
>> I have thought about it a couple of times but never started. It would be really nice to have.
>
> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix

Ah, never mind me. Although the functionality between dfix and a dfmt is probably quite similar.

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:18:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?

Uncrustify claims D support.
http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/

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.

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 22:11:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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)?
>
> My only concern about it is if dfmt is changed, then we get faced with a blizzard of changes in the D github repositories.

Build it into DMD with an option to change files in place or dump them to stdout. I do think though, this would require a pragma or a special comment to disable it for parts of code. There will always be the case where the standard is wrong.

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:18:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?

I have a module in libdparse that takes an AST and formats it to an output range, but it is still fairly primitive at the moment. It could probably be made into a real formatter with a few days of work.

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 21:18:58 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix
>
> Ah, never mind me. Although the functionality between dfix and a dfmt is probably quite similar.

dfix is more complicated than it could be because it tries to avoid changing the formatting of the file that it's operating on.

On 2015-01-10 20:17:34 +0000, Walter Bright said:

> Has someone made a dfmt, like http://gofmt.com/ ?

No, I was planning on working on one if we ever got libd parsing 100% of the code.    Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of time to work on these sorts of things lately.

-Shammah