A tutorial on D templates

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Jan 14 18:27:01 PST 2012


On 1/14/12 6:54 PM, Georg Wrede wrote:
> On 01/14/2012 08:45 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/14/2012 7:05 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>>> On 01/14/2012 03:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Minor stylistic nit pet peeve of mine: please remove the word "you" and
>>>> "your" from the prose.
>>>
>>> That sounds a bit strict, and looking at one of your articles I see it
>>> used in
>>> the second sentence: "A pure function does what you'd expect — the
>>> compiler
>>> enforces purity of the function."
>>
>> What can I say? Ya got me there. I do tend to write "you", and remove
>> them in a later pass.
>>
>> But let's take some examples from the first page of the text, and see if
>> the elidition looks better:
>
> Why don't we just let the guy write his thing in peace, before demanding
> a complete book with stylistically professional grammar and style?
>
> I mean, at this rate we are beating the horse to death before we've even
> put it in front of the carriage. If I were Philippe, by this time I'd be
> stressed out, and the project would start to whither.
>
> How about folks just helping him write it, like he asked?
>
> There's plenty of time to turn it to the Ten Commandments later, but it
> needs to exist before that.

He asked for feedback. People sent feedback.

Andrei


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