The quality of the formatter is extremely important. Using a bad formatter is such a bad experience that I would agree it may be better to not use it... but mod

The quality of the formatter is extremely important. Using a bad formatter is such a bad experience that I would agree it may be better to not use it... but modern languages have this problem mostly solved (not so sure about D)... the example in the post would still be broken up in multiple lines because almost all formatters will avoid having multiple "statements" in a single line, for good reason. But as with any tool: you can probably improve it, for example, to keep this exact "pattern" if you really like it... I wonder if there are formatters that are powerful enough to allow this sort of customization.