On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 08:59:17 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
For a friendly introduction to D template system please take a
look at this: http://nomad.so/2013/07/templates-in-d-explained/
Then to understand why parens are optional take a look at this:
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 06:25:15 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 05:46:29 UTC, ProgrammingGhost
wrote:
I'm a D noob. .map!(a = a.length) seems like the lambda is
passed into the template. .map!split just confuses me. What
is split? I thought only types can be after !. I
ProgrammingGhost:
As if split.map was the template parameter. How does it know if
split isn't a class (or if d has them, namespace) and map is a
static function? Thats why it confused me.
D doesn't have namespaces, it has modules and packages. map is a
higher order function that returns a
I'm a D noob. .map!(a = a.length) seems like the lambda is
passed into the template. .map!split just confuses me. What is
split? I thought only types can be after !. I would guess split
is a standard function but then shouldn't it be map!(split)?
const wordCount = file.byLine()
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 05:46:29 UTC, ProgrammingGhost
wrote:
I'm a D noob. .map!(a = a.length) seems like the lambda is
passed into the template. .map!split just confuses me. What
is split? I thought only types can be after !. I would guess
split is a standard function but then
When a template argument is only one token long (ie: one number, one type,
one string, one name), the parenthesis are optional and can be omitted.
