On Sunday, 25 November 2012 at 00:12:04 UTC, Rob T wrote:
Thanks for pointing out where the postblit stuff is documented. When I first started learning the language, I did read that part a few times over, but I found it frustratingly hard to grasp. I will re-read that section again.
This should be MUCH more documented. Most users (in particular C++ users) are surprised by this behavior, and creates a great deal of confusion.
TDPL is a good book, but it is not the official spec, nor is it even a spec, it's a book that covers some aspects of how to use the language. How copy and assignments work in D really needs to be 100% documented in the language spec to ensure that it is officially a part of the language and not a clever compiler optimization that may or may not be implemented.
AFAIK, there is no "official spec". And even if there was, the "de-facto" spec *is* TDPL... minus everything that could have changed since it's printing.
