Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-13 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 01:02:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [snip] Thanks for the reply.

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 21:10:28 UTC, John Colvin wrote: When you want to have control over the process of loading a library e.g. if you want it to be an optional dependency at runtime. I've seen the example in the book. I'm just not sure why you would want an optional runtime

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-12 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 20:32:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I'm not sure when you would want to use dynamic bindings. When you want to have control over the process of loading a library e.g. if you want it to be an optional dependency at runtime.

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-12 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 22:00:32 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 21:10:28 UTC, John Colvin wrote: When you want to have control over the process of loading a library e.g. if you want it to be an optional dependency at runtime. I've seen the example in the book. I'm

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 17:21:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks guys! That kind of feedback is a good Christmas present :) I'm working through the book now. I'm liking it. I'm on Chapter 9, which has the Connecting D with C material. At the beginning of the chapter you define some

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 21:10:28 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 20:32:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I'm not sure when you would want to use dynamic bindings. When you want to have control over the process of loading a library e.g. if you want it to be an optional

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 19:09:22 UTC, Kingsley wrote: On Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 17:58:52 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Really appreciate the attention to detail that went into it. This is a fantastic book - thanks very much to Mike for all the effort and attention he put into

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-26 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 17:58:52 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 06:17:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] Got "Learning D" as a present, still reading. I must say I didn't expect to learn much after the D Cookbook or TDPL. Wrong! The content matches

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-26 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 06:17:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 13:14:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 11:26:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: Is it just me or does the free sample link just show the first two paragraphs of each section, which are available for every section in the book? Would be nice if a

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:58:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/01/2015 09:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations! You may want to announce it in social news as well (twitter, facebook, reddit, hackernews). -- Andrei

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/01/2015 12:33 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:58:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/01/2015 09:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations! You may want to announce it in social news as well (twitter, facebook, reddit, hackernews). -- Andrei

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/01/2015 01:17 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this forum, please forgive

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/01/2015 09:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations! You may want to announce it in social news as well (twitter, facebook, reddit, hackernews). -- Andrei https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3v0vw8/book_release_learning_d_by_michael_parker_is_now/ Mike, I hope you

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
V Tue, 01 Dec 2015 06:17:15 + Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce napsáno: > Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable > process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov > 27. Today, I finally got that notification.

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sorry to steal your thunder. I assumed I wasn't keeping up. I actually went to that website because I had just noticed Kai Nacke's book announcement from July, and there was your book, at half price. I strongly recommend Learning D to anyone wanting to learn more about D. Count this as a

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
V Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:27:35 + bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce napsáno: > Sorry to steal your thunder. I assumed I wasn't keeping up. I > actually went to that website because I had just noticed Kai > Nacke's book announcement from July, and there

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Luis via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 06:17:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 06:17:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 09:02:39 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: http://wiki.dlang.org/Books should be updated :) Done! Thanks.

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 11:26:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: Is it just me or does the free sample link just show the first two paragraphs of each section, which are available for every section in the book? Would be nice if a whole section or two were made available. If you create an

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 13:24:09 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/1/15 9:36 AM, Mike Parker wrote: No idea. All I know is I got an email today saying that it was released on the 27th. It's been available for pre-order for several months now. FWIW, I just got an email today from them that it is now published. So you aren't the only one. The email

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I > wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally > got that notification.

Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this forum, please forgive me for taking the opportunity to make my