Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Jason House wrote: > > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > > >> It's a rough rough draft, but one for the full chapter on arrays, > >> associative arrays, and strings. > >> > >> http://erdani.com/d/thermopylae.pdf > >> > >> Any feedback is welcome. Thanks! > > > > I still think is expressions are a glaring problem. Somewhere in the > > text, you use assert(!is(typeof(... as support for what you're > > talking about. That particular construct feels more like a hack > > someone stumbled into than clean, easy to read code. It's the type of > > thing a programmer will get wring unless they use it frequently. Even > > you've screwed it up in past Phobos releases! IMHO all is(...) > > expressions should be revisited. Have you written the section(s) on > > them yet? > > > > Also, on page 8? a code comment says average of a and b even though > > the variables don't exist. > > Thanks, fixed. I also would like to see is expressions improved, but so > far we couldn't find a good solution. There is a proposal currently in > Bugzilla which may improve things. > > Andrei
What's the bugzilla number?