On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 05:28:13AM +0000, WhatMeForget via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > This is taken exactly from the traits documentation. > > ------------------------------------------------ > > 25 Traits > > 25.21 identifier > > Takes one argument, a symbol. Returns the identifier for that symbol > as a string literal. > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > There are no examples. My naive brain keeps thinking that a symbol and > an identifier are the same things. Can someone give me good > definitions of "symbol" and "identifier". And maybe an example if it > is not too much trouble.
You're not the only one. I stared at this same piece of documentation for a long time before I figured out what it meant. This is another example of poor documentation writing. Please file a bug, and I'll see if I can get around to making an example for it. T -- Notwithstanding the eloquent discontent that you have just respectfully expressed at length against my verbal capabilities, I am afraid that I must unfortunately bring it to your attention that I am, in fact, NOT verbose.