On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 00:35:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 00:23:34 UTC, deed wrote:
1. Are there technical reasons not to do it this way, like
grammar/ambiguity, parsing time, etc.?
I can't think of any, it is pretty simple to parse either way.
2. Have others been thinking in same direction playing with
converters or alternative front ends?
I know there was one to make D look more like python a while
ago that was recently discussed again on the forum but I can't
remember what it was called right now.
At this point the readability and overview would be improved
IMO.
I don't agree; I find that backwards and weird. Comes down to
what you're used to probably.
Another option might be to put tabs in there so you write
void foo()
int bar()
and so on so the names are vertically aligned.
+1 - I use spaces though.
The problem is that reading the code becomes difficult if you
don't have nice formatting either way. The identifier is
difficult to read, or the type is difficult to read. Formatting
the code is the only way to make it easy to read.
If you're a vim user, look at vim-easy-align:
https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align
Other editors might have similar formatting rules.
