What does idiomatic D means?

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:50:52 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote:

On 08/06/2010 08:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
I wrote these two trivial utilities for the purpose of canonicalizing
source code before checkins and to deal with FreeBSD's inability to deal
with CRLF line endings, and because I can never figure out the right
settings for git to make it do the canonicalization.

tolf - converts LF, CR, and CRLF line endings to LF.

detab - converts all tabs to the correct number of spaces. Assumes tabs
are 8 column tabs. Removes trailing whitespace from lines.

Posted here just in case someone wonders what they are.
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Nice, though they don't account for multiline string literals.

A good exercise would be rewriting these tools in idiomatic D2 and assess the differences.


Andrei


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