On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 15:30:42 UTC, qznc wrote:
So I started conceiving of a language in which even the
*comments* were part of the AST. For, me this would be the
aesthetic ideal. It just seemed like the next step in total
AST integration.
The clang-format approach is to make decisions based on the AST,
but edit the byte array. AST nodes contain exact positions: line
and column numbers. Sometimes more of them. For example, an
if-statement needs to know the position of 'else' as well.
Here is another example: void setX(int position /* inches */);
However, I think it should really be wrapped into a struct
instead to get type checker's approval.
Initially, clang-format only did whitespace changes. I am not
sure if they weakened this already. For example, stripping
parens
in expressions (((((x)))) => x) would be acceptable for me.
btw +1 for https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt
Last time I checked, it work on the lexer rather than the AST.
