On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:53:57 UTC, Dominikus Dittes
Scherkl wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:39:01 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:06:20 UTC, Dominikus Dittes
Scherkl wrote:
There is a gapping hole in the language reference: The
operators are nowhere described.
Ok, most of them are the same as in C and C++, but there are
subtle differences (e.g. different precedence) and some are
new (the floating point comparisons have their own chapter
and they are about to beeing deprecated, but what about >>>,
^^, ^^=, =>, ., is, in ?).
And even if they where all the same as in C or C++, not
everybody comes from those languages and D should be
understandable without such kind of background knowledge, I
think.
http://dlang.org/expression.html
This describes what operators (tokens) exist and what operands
they can take
(form a grammar point of view), but not what they do. You may
say that's obvious, but I know languages where even "+" doesn't
do what one might expect.
With exception of the ones that are the same in C, I can't spot
any that are missing an explanation.
I agree that it would be good to have a more beginner friendly
description of them all, but to a C(++) programmer I would say
that document contains the info they need.
