On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 18:33:23 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
@timotheecour and I came up with a solution to a common problem:
How to represent multiple files in a forum post?
So we decided to take a stab at creating a standard! (queue
links to https://xkcd.com/927)
We're calling it "har" (inspired by the name tar).
Clever name. Har D har har {ducks!} :)
Here's the REPO: https://github.com/marler8997/har and here's
what it looks like:
--- file1.d
module file1;
--- file2.d
module file2;
// some cool stuff
--- main.d
import file1, file2;
void main() { }
--- Makefile
main: main.d file1.d file2.d
dmd main.d file1.d file2.d
This looks handy.
Yes, it's easy enough in markdown docs to just put code block
markers around them (such as ``` or ~~~).
Can the har file delimiter be more than three characters?
What do you think of allowing trailing dashes (or whatever the
delim chars are) after the file/dir name? It would make it easier
to see the delimiters for larger har'd files.
--- file1.d -------------------
module file1;
--- file2.d -------------------
module file2;
(Note that markdown allows extra trailing characters with its
ATX-style headers, and Pandoc does likewise with ATX headers as
well as its div syntax (delimited by at least three colons), for
that very reason --- to make it easier to spot them.)
