DCT: D compiler as a collection of libraries

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, May 11, 2012 23:00:15 Rory McGuire wrote:
> yip, but TDPL still has to take precedence because that is the one that
> walter + andrei + community put the most focused effort into.

It doesn't necessarily. Each place that they differ is examined individually 
and decided on its own merits. There is no automatic "TDPL says it's so, so 
it's so." There _are_ cases where things have even been explicitly changed 
after TDPL was released, making TDPL out-of-date for that particular item (e.g 
strong vs weak purity is not discussed in TDPL at all, beacuse it didn't exist 
at the time). In general, however, TDPL _is_ correct, and when there's a 
difference, it's simply a case of the documentation or compiler not having been 
updated accordingly. We try to avoid making any changes that would conflict 
with TDPL.

- Jonathan M Davis