Re: C#7 features

[Peter Häggman via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:33:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Most of them are also present in D, yay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/

Added a comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4i3h77/some_new_c7_features/d2v5lu6


Andrei


Their tuples seem to be a complete DIY:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.tuple(v=vs.110).aspx

I wouldn't be surpised to see in the implementation an array of 
variant or something like that, explaining why it's limited to 
octuples [1]. Sharp tuples look weak compared to D tuple-ish 
things: Tuple, TList, AliasSeq, variadics, ...


[1] Also I think that the param-"variadicity" is simply emulated 
via a set of overloaded constructor, explaining why they stop at 
8.

Re: Adventures in D Programming

[Peter Häggman via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 17:19:05 UTC, qznc wrote:

On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 06:05:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/05/adventures-in-d-programming.html


Thanks, I missed that post until now.


"the documentation not matching the actual code is a bad 
experience for someone new to the language"


I would interpret that as a sign that we want multiple versions 
of documentation available on the website. For example, Python 
does that.


You've quoted the wrong part of the paragraph. The real problem 
he encountered was not the doc, it was the phobos bugs in the 
older version shipped with GDC/LDC:


"For GDC, which I used to compile my code due to LDC having bugs 
at that time, this means that it is shipping with a very outdated 
copy of Phobos"


The the doc thing is "just" a symptom. Older offline doc is 
always available in the release archive, it's easy to understand 
that so it's not the actual problem.