On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 11:19 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > It would be in the DMD front end, so LDC and GDC would it > automatically.
s/it/get it/ ? What wouldn't be automatic would be the command line options and other surrounding bits and pieces. > […] > The rules are always going to be wrong. But in this case, that's ok. For someone, not everyone. For some the rules will be right or at least acceptable. > […] > Sometimes it's better to just conform. It depends if the grievances are small enough to ignore and/or the benefits outweight. Sometimes conformance is a "bridge too far" and non-use, or use of an alternative is the right course of action. > […] > Really? Like what? After many years of arguing about formatting > myself, I > decided that I had better things to waste my time on. I do not see a point in opening up the debate. An official style exists, it is that which is required for Phobos. This is the style that will be implemented by dfmt. […] > > So you decided to conform rather than not use Go. Yes. My grievances against the enforced style are not sufficient to abandon, and the need to deal with error codes at all times is not a sufficient pain to stop me using Go. What is the counterbalance? Go routines, the use of channels, and the eshewing of any form of shared mutable memory. Go has a lot of crap, a lot of positive and negative hype, and dataflow built into the language. I find it surprising easy to ignore the crap. > (Anyhow, I suggest that gofmt is only mandatory if you wish to > contribute to > offical Go code, not for your own projects.) I suspect applying gofmt to Phobos code would have interesting results ;-) PEP-8 allows for some minor variations. It can be applied as is for official PEP-8 compliant code or you can have variation. Of course the pep8 code is only an advisor, gofmt rewrites your code. Originally the gc compiler automatically rewrote your code, but that was seen as too fascist, so gofmt was split off as a separate tool. Now though everyone uses gofmt anyway adhering to the "one true style". Having gofmt separate is though still the right thing as there is gc and gccgo which share no code. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder