On Monday, December 20, 2010 06:01:23 Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 07:01:30 +0000, doubleagent wrote: > > Andrei's quick dictionary illustration [in his book, 'The D Programming > > Language'] doesn't seem to work. Code attached. > > That's strange. I ran the example you posted using DMD 2.050 myself, and > it works for me. Are you 100% sure that you are running this version, > and that it is not using an outdated Phobos version (from an older > installation, for instance)? > > One suggestion: Try replacing the next-to-last line with this: > > dictionary[word.idup] = newId; > > The 'word' array is mutable and reused by byLine() on each iteration. By > doing the above you use an immutable copy of it as the key instead. > > > On my computer, with d2-0.5.0, I got the following output while testing. > > > > andrei > > 0 andrei > > > > andrei > > > > 1 andrei > > > > > > Also, why doesn't 'splitter' show up on the site's documentation of > > std.string? And what advantage does 'splitter(strip(line))' offer over > > 'split(line)'? > > splitter is defined in std.algorithm. The fact that it becomes visible > when you import std.string is due to bug 314: > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=314 > > (std.string is supposed to publically import just a few symbols from > std.algorithm, but because of this bug the whole module gets imported > publically.)
Actually, while that is a definite bug, splitter() _is_ defined in std.string as well (though it calls std.algorithm.splitter()), but it returns auto, so it doesn't show up in the docs, which is a different bug. - Jonathan M Davis
