On 11/23/2010 12:12 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Monday 22 November 2010 21:03:27 Walter Bright wrote: > >> Matthias Walter wrote: >> >>> What about adding a compiler switch that one can turn on and that warns >>> on obviously wrong names? Is this realistic? At least to check the usage >>> of underscores and captial first letter. The CamelCase can probably not >>> be verified, but hopefully a lot of programmers will use it, if the >>> compiler encourages them to not use underscores... Just an idea, you can >>> flame on, if you like. >>> >> If you want, it would be easy to write a simple program that read the .json >> output of the compiler, and then enforce any naming convention you need. >> > That could be a useful tool. And I do think that a basic set of "typical" D > naming conventions and the like could be useful. But I don't really think > that > it makes sense to have the compiler itself enforcing style. That sort of > thing > definitely belongcs in external tools. > So we should talk to the IDE designers, s.t. they include this into their list of planned features. I recommend a 3-minute alarm sound per badly named variable/function :)
Matthias