Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Mike Parker 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! Andrei p.28 line 16: >>> symbols in less bits should be >>> symbols in

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-31 Thread Mike Parker
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! Andrei p.28 line 16: >>> symbols in less bits should be >>> symbols in fewer bits

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Saaa
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote > Saaa wrote: >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Saaa wrote: > Could anybody clear these up for me? > >> p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about >> void assignment? I'd put your feedback on my p

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Saaa wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Saaa wrote: Could anybody clear these up for me? p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about void assignment? I'd put your feedback on my pile of things to do, but now that you ask, I made this change to

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Saaa
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Saaa wrote: >>> Could anybody clear these up for me? >>> p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about void assignment? >> >> I'd put your feedback on my pile of things to do, but now that you ask, I >> made

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Saaa wrote: Could anybody clear these up for me? p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about void assignment? I'd put your feedback on my pile of things to do, but now that you ask, I made this change to the incriminated paragraph:

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Saaa wrote: Could anybody clear these up for me? p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about void assignment? I'd put your feedback on my pile of things to do, but now that you ask, I made this change to the incriminated paragraph: === Such uninitialized arra

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-30 Thread Saaa
Could anybody clear these up for me? > p16. Is there anything other than the random values, unsafe about void > assignment? > p18. What is unsafe about implicit conversion of static to dynamic array? >Meaning getting a dynamic array pointing to a stack allocated > array. >Any op

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Ellery Newcomer
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Ellery Newcomer wrote: >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> Ellery Newcomer 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

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Tom S 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! Thanks for the excerpt! I've only had the time to give it a brief skim so far, but

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Tom S
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! Thanks for the excerpt! I've only had the time to give it a brief skim so far, but it's looking

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Robert Jacques wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:38:33 -0400, 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! Andrei Still reading, but here's

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Robert Jacques
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:38:33 -0400, 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! Andrei Still reading, but here's a quick comment. I fo

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Ellery Newcomer wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ellery Newcomer 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! Andrei Maybe I haven'

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Pelle Månsson
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Pelle Månsson 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! Andrei Your "Hallå Värd!" should be "Hallå Vä

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Ellery Newcomer
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Ellery Newcomer 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! >>> >>> >>> Andrei >> >>

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Saaa wrote: Will we get the electronic version with the paper version? I'm not exactly sure how things will roll out. Probably yes. p2. typo: eenlists p9. Is it ok to expect the order of an array expression to be like in foreach ? Maybe mention a[] = b. p11. typo: no(t) palindrome p12

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Saaa
crp > p20. 40 words? those where for myself, to check

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Saaa
Also, no mention about .dup not being a deep dup.

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Saaa
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! > > > Andrei Makes me want to read the rest! Will we get the electronic version with the p

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Ellery Newcomer 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! Andrei Maybe I haven't been paying attention lately, but shouldn't asse

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Ellery Newcomer
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! > > > Andrei Maybe I haven't been paying attention lately, but shouldn't assert(x == 0

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Pelle Månsson 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! Andrei Your "Hallå Värd!" should be "Hallå Värld!", to be Swedish. D: T

Re: The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-29 Thread Pelle Månsson
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! Andrei Your "Hallå Värd!" should be "Hallå Värld!", to be Swedish. D: Also, I am wondering, wh

The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

2009-10-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
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! Andrei