Re: dfmt 0.1.0

[FG via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2015-03-07 at 07:51, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

Many C++ > projects are returning to it, Go enforces it if you let it,
many Python projects are starting to use it in spite of PEP-8.

Now, that you mentioned Python, it was one of the main reasons why I moved away 
from tabs. I was used to tab-completion in the shell and Python's interactive 
interpreter (and didn't want to rebind that feature to some key combination on 
every system that I worked with). Whenever I copied chunks of tab-indented 
source code into the interpreter, it got screwed up, because the indentations 
had vanished, so eventually I switched to using spaces only and had no problems 
ever since.

I can also say from experience that removing tabs from Phobos source has removed
a lot of irritation with messed up code rendering and wasted effort arguing
about it. We're not going back :-)

And I am not going to work on Phobos for exactly the same reasons. My
loss, not yours.

You must be joking. :)

If at all, the problem with Phobos' style isn't with horizontal spacing but 
vertical space.
Consider the waste of space below. Too much scrolling and I lose focus. Now, 
*that* is really irritating. ;)


    struct Boo
    {
        int a;
    }

    struct Foo
    {
        int a;
        auto opAssign(Foo foo)
        {
            assert(0);
        }
        auto opEquals(Foo foo)
        {
            return a == foo.a;
        }
    }

    X calculate(Range)(Range r)
    {
        static if (something)
        {
            import whatever;

            auto result = xxx();

            size_t i;
            foreach (e; r)
            {
                doSomething(result[i], e);
                ++i;
            }
            return result;
        }
        else
        {
            auto a = blah();
            foreach (e; r)
            {
                a.put(e);
            }
            return a.data;
        }
    }