On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 10:12:09 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 10:03:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Haven't we all got better things to do than argue about
formatting styles? If I was a manager paying programmers $$$$,
I do not want to pay them to argue about formatting, either.
But this is exactly the point! There is a team with already
established coding style. Suddenly switching those because of
upstream will create inevitable tension and decrease in
efficiency until people adapt to new style and form new habits.
And this will be investment with exactly 0 resulting benefit.
Most likely pragmatical decision would be "stick to existing
style and ignore dfmt existence". Or "fork that tool and add
our style" if that is small effort.
It is also matter of expectation. Until now D was very
un-opinionated language, probably even closer to language
construction set. If this changes for one case, one may fear
more similar decisions may follow.
Before this gets even more out of hand[0] I'd like to point out
that handling the two different brace styles and spaces-vs-tabs
is about 20 of the nearly 2000 lines of code in dfmt.
These two options have been related to maybe 3 of the 100 issues
filed against the tool. It's just really not a big deal compared
to the line wrapping and indentation matching that needs to be
done regardless of which color the bike shed is.
[0] Remember when I said I was an idiot for starting this thread?
