Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, October 25, 2013 15:17:52 Daniel Davidson wrote: > I wish you would write a book :-) I actually intend to and have started on it, but I'm far, far too busy right now to do much with D beyond respond to posts on the newsgroup while waiting for builds and whatnot. I hope to get back to

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-25 Thread Daniel Davidson
On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 18:14:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 14:39:21 Suliman wrote: It would be great to have updated TDPL book... I don't understand why people keep saying that. Is it because people keep repeating that incorrect assumption that it's o

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-25 Thread Guido Kollerie
On 24-10-2013 23:44, Jonathan M Davis wrote: That's why I gave a link to a previous post that talked about it: http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1762.1373097795.13711.digitalmar...@puremagic.com Can't believe I missed that one. I'm sorry. Thank you. -- Guido Kollerie signature.asc Desc

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 22:26:01 Guido Kollerie wrote: > This short list of things described in TDPL though not yet implemented. > Is that documented somewhere? If not please do mention those things in > this thread similarly to how UFCS and UDA were mentioned. That will help > me and other n

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 10/24/2013 01:26 PM, Guido Kollerie wrote: On 24-10-2013 20:14, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If anything, the problem with TDPL is that some of what it describes still hasn't been implemented yet, and that list is also quite short. This thread has already proved very valuable. Thank you all! So

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Guido Kollerie
On 24-10-2013 20:14, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If anything, the problem with TDPL is that some of what it describes still hasn't been implemented yet, and that list is also quite short. This thread has already proved very valuable. Thank you all! So far I've learned: - where the errata lives

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 15:40:28 Russel Winder wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 20:48 +0200, Kapps wrote: > […] > > > At the time the book was made, it did only work on arrays which > > probably explains the minimal coverage and array example. > > Which strongly suggests a 2nd edition is in o

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 14:39:21 Suliman wrote: > It would be great to have updated TDPL book... I don't understand why people keep saying that. Is it because people keep repeating that incorrect assumption that it's out-of-date? Or is it just that too many people have the impression that

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-24 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 20:48 +0200, Kapps wrote: […] > At the time the book was made, it did only work on arrays which > probably explains the minimal coverage and array example. Which strongly suggests a 2nd edition is in order. -- Russel. ===

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Kapps
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 17:38:28 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:59:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:51:22 UTC, simendsjo wrote: And before UFCS..? AFAIR it mentions only partial UFCS, for built-in stuff It calls them "pseudo

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Anderson
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:59:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:51:22 UTC, simendsjo wrote: And before UFCS..? AFAIR it mentions only partial UFCS, for built-in stuff It calls them "pseudo members"* and only spends a couple paragraphs on them. It talks abo

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Dicebot
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 12:39:22 UTC, Suliman wrote: It would be great to have updated TDPL book... I think it is tiny bit too early. Probably a good time can be somewhere after next DConf, after fate of some controversial features/issues is determined and set in stone.

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Suliman
It would be great to have updated TDPL book...

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Dicebot
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:51:22 UTC, simendsjo wrote: And before UFCS..? AFAIR it mentions only partial UFCS, for built-in stuff

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread simendsjo
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:47:47 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: Hi, Wanting to learn another modern statically typed language I decided upon learning D and have ordered Andrei Alexandrescu's book 'The D Programming Language'. Wat

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Meta
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: Hi, Wanting to learn another modern statically typed language I decided upon learning D and have ordered Andrei Alexandrescu's book 'The D Programming Language'. Watching Walter Bright's DConf 2013's keynote last night, som

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread simendsjo
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:17:08 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: On 23/10/13 09:43 , simendsjo wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: I was wondering is there is a list of things that have changed since the book was printed? Something along the lines o

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Guido Kollerie
On 23/10/13 09:43 , simendsjo wrote: On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: I was wondering is there is a list of things that have changed since the book was printed? Something along the lines of "The book says x, nowadays its better to do y" type of document? h

Re: D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread simendsjo
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie wrote: Hi, Wanting to learn another modern statically typed language I decided upon learning D and have ordered Andrei Alexandrescu's book 'The D Programming Language'. Watching Walter Bright's DConf 2013's keynote last night, som

D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

2013-10-23 Thread Guido Kollerie
Hi, Wanting to learn another modern statically typed language I decided upon learning D and have ordered Andrei Alexandrescu's book 'The D Programming Language'. Watching Walter Bright's DConf 2013's keynote last night, someone mentioned it was already out of date. I was wondering is there i