On Tuesday, October 01, 2013 21:32:05 qznc wrote: > On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 07:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > I confess that I don't understand why so many people are > > fixated on having a > > standard style, particularly when it's very, very clear that > > most everyone > > disagrees on what counts as good style. What little we have in > > terms of official > > style guidlelines for D can be found here: > > http//:dlang.org/dstyle.html > > I think nowadays programmers expect their language to come with > more opinion and best practices. In contrast, the C++ world is > too fragmented for consistent advice. > > I believe, the best solution would be to include an > auto-formatter (like go fmt), so people can simply reformat the > code before and after editing.
Yuck. I want to be able to format my code the way that I like. I really don't like the idea of any kind of standard formatting, and I hate it when I'm forced to work on projects where I'm forced to format the code in a particular way. I'd much, much rather be able to format the code however I like. I've worked on several projects where the rule of thumb is to try and keep the formatting with a file consistent but otherwise let folks format their code how they like, and that's far more pleasant IMHO. Having a formatter just encourages forcing some sort of standard format, and it only works for the folks who really like that format and the folks who don't care about formatting. - Jonathan M Davis
