[D] newline after constructor name before open parentheses produces unexpected results

[ernest-bruce]

What happened?

i like to style my D code so that the open parentheses after a functionname goes on a separate line, which works in most cases:

however, as shown here, this doesnt work as expected in class constructors:

im using Sublime Text 4143

[deathaxe]

A this token on its own doesn't denote a constructor. The pattern the syntax definition uses (simplified test\s*\() however matches only if all required tokens are on the same line, because ST doesn't include the linefeed into \s and does lexing line-per-line only. That's what is called line-blindness.

A workaround may be to use ST's branching feature, but this would theoretically need to be implemented for more such situations and adds a lot of complexity to the syntax definition.