On 09/27/2017 08:33 AM, Ky-Anh Huynh wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 14:34:06 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: >> >> See also the following chapter in Ali's book: >> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/templates.html > > Thanks a lot. I will keep reading :)
The fact that such an important operator is explained so late in the book is due to the book's strong desire to have a linear flow.
Although binary ! appears before the templates chapter as to!int, format!"%s", etc., I decided to get to templates only after going through everything that could be templatized. (For example, even interfaces can be templates.) I don't claim this is the best choice but I'm happy that some people said that they found the linear flow useful. (I know that others would find it boring. :) )
If I were to write the book again, one other thing that I would explain earlier would be UFCS, and I would use much more of it in the examples. (UFCS was added to the language after I wrote most of the book.)
Ali
