On 29/10/2016 1:35 AM, Mark wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 17:53:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 9/27/16 1:38 PM, Mark wrote:
I've been going through Andrei's excellent book and I noticed that the
latest printing is from 2010. Since D is still a very young language I
can imagine it changing quite a bit within six years. So I wonder if
there are any major inconsistincies between the current state of the
language and its description in TDPL. Is there a list somewhere with all
the changes made in the langauge since the book was published?
Thanks a lot.
Most things that are "wrong" in the book should be in the errata:
http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/
There are also some things that are not wrong in the book, but have
not been implemented.
I think the most glaring difference is that "clear" has been renamed
to "destroy".
-Steve
Another thing that I found today is that the book suggests nested
structs within functions are of little use. I guess Voldemort types were
introduced into the language after the book was published.
Should this be on the errata page? It's not exactly an error.
Ranges were the 'big' idiom that changed this.
Otherwise they are indeed of little use.
I think it shouldn't be included, but since you feel otherwise, email
Andrei and let him know, no harm either way :)
