Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 17:26:11 Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: > > What's changed in the language, library, and community since > > then that I should be aware of if following along with and > > learning

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:26:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: What's changed in the language, library, and community since then that I should be aware of if following along with and learning from that book? Here's a

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:50:59 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: Multiple alias this You can only have one subtyping member currently. Shared Not all of shared's guarantees are implemented yet. SafeD @safe (and therefore SafeD) isn't fully implemented. So, it doesn't necessarily

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:26:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: Here's a list of significant things - maybe incomplete: https://wiki.dlang.org/Differences_With_TDPL Multiple alias this You can only have one subtyping member currently. Shared Not all of shared's guarantees are

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-11-29 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: What's changed in the language, library, and community since then that I should be aware of if following along with and learning from that book? Here's a list of significant things - maybe incomplete:

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-10-05 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: Hi all, This is my first message to this forum. And what a pleasure it is to be here. :) I was just looking around at what D books are available. I see that Andrei's "The D Programming Language" was published in 2010.

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-10-05 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: Hi all, This is my first message to this forum. And what a pleasure it is to be here. :) I was just looking around at what D books are available. I see that Andrei's "The D Programming Language" was published in 2010.

Re: Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-10-04 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
Andrei's book contains some outdated and some not-yet-implemented things but it's still a great read. It explains core features and design decisions of D very well. Ali

Andrei's "The D Programming Language" book. Up to date?

2017-10-04 Thread John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi all, This is my first message to this forum. And what a pleasure it is to be here. :) I was just looking around at what D books are available. I see that Andrei's "The D Programming Language" was published in 2010. What's changed in the language, library, and community since then that I