On Tuesday, 20 August 2024 at 21:53:10 UTC, Andy Valencia wrote:
On Saturday, 17 August 2024 at 17:31:53 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On Saturday, 17 August 2024 at 05:28:37 UTC, Bruce wrote:
What is the best way to search for a function
in the Phobos library?
Go to dlang.org, select dicumentation, then library reference.
Pick any module, click on it
In the upper right, switch the docs from stable to ddox
Now you can use the search bar and it is interactive. Typing
in indexOf found it right away.
I'm doing some network programming, and have run things down
with casts and all to the point where I have an IPv4 address.
The documentation says it's in "host order", so obviously a
32-bit number. My C days tell me htonl is what's needed--but
it's nowhere to be found in the API index? I did a search and
it's apparently under core/sys, but "sys" isn't included in the
online documentation?
Doing bulk searches in
/usr/lib/ldc/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/d/core/sys lets me run it
down to three places, of which I'd guess posix/arpa/inet.d is
the one to use.
But this all seems a little bit harder than it might be?
A map of C or Python API's to the Dlang counterpart might be
the easiest way to let people find things.
`core.sys` is OS-specific API bindings. They have no
documentation, and I can imagine that the sheer amount of
`version` statements in them would break the documentation
generation.
You should’ve probably considered using the equivalent function
from Phobos because it’s a D function so it can be inlined and
such:
https://dlang.org/library/std/bitmanip/native_to_big_endian.html
