Re: learning D. Experienced issue very quickly.

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:10:46 -0400, Mark <sectio...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yeah I bought the book recently and ran into an issue very quickly into  
it. But this error I keep getting keeps bugging me. Could really use an  
explanation on why its not compiling. Here is the code.

/*
   Compute heights in centimeters for a range of heights
   expressed in feet and inches
*/
import std.stdio;

void main() {
   // values unlikely to change soon
   immutable inchPerFoot = 12;
   immutable cmPerInch = 2.54;

   // loop'n write
   foreach (feet; 5 .. 7) {
     foreach (inches; 0 .. inchPerFoot) {
       writeln(feet, "'", inches, "''\t",
         (feet * inchPerFoot + inches) * cmPerInch);
     }
   }
}


Here is the error I keep getting every time I try to compile:

(13): found '..' when expecting ')'
(13): found ')' when expecting ';' following statement
(14): found '..' when expecting ')'
(14): found ')' when expecting ';' following statement

This compiles and runs on my system.

Are you using D1?  Please use the latest D (a.k.a D2) compiler.  The book  
does *not* cover D1 at all.

If you are, please give more detail (OS, which compiler you are using).

-Steve