On 07/14/2010 07:28 AM, bearophile wrote:
I have finally received my copy of The D Programming Language :-) This is a first post of notes that I am writing while I read this text for the first time.
Thanks. Though the effort is definitely to be appreciated, there is a high risk that such long streams of consciousness come and go and are forgotten. There are more persistent places for proposing changes to the language or the book:
- for bug reports and enhancement proposals for D, use our Bugzilla repository (http://d.puremagic.com/issues)
- for book errata use http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata
I'd like to know how many copies have being sold so far, it can give a starting idea of how many people are interested in D2.
I receive a statement from the publisher every 6 months. My understanding is that there are significant seasonal variations (summer being generally a slow time) and that the #1 influencing factor of sales are good reviews.
I have seen the PDF on the site, but I'd like to see colored code in the electronic text. Source code colorization improves code readability (an offline PDF version that allows copy&paste can allow me to give better quotations here).
Unfortunately my choice in the matter is pretty limited. For the publisher a different version than the one printed is a red flag - in theory there could be differences in content too. I'll see what I can do.
P 8, first program: - Unsigned integers are dangerous in D, their usage must be discouraged as much as possible, use them only when they are strictly necessary, they are premature optimization, don't use them in the first few hundred pages of the book. And assigning length to an uint loses precision anyway, because length is a size_t that can be 64 bits too, so in this early example it is *much* better to use just one int value.
That's indeed a bug, I primed the errata on your behalf. Andrei
