"Programming in D" book is about 95% translated

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/2/13 1:15 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 November 2013 at 00:03:51 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> I have continued with the translation of the book. There are 36 of the
>> 727 pages still to be translated. (However, I still need to write the
>> UDA chapter.)
>>
>> In addition to many corrections and additions throughout the book,
>> there are the following chapters translated:
>>
>> * Tuples
>> * More Templates
>> * More Functions
>> * Mixins
>> * More Ranges
>
> That's fantastic, Ali, thanks and many congratulations! :-)
>
> One small linguistic note -- in the "More Ranges" chapter, it may be
> better to call your example range "Opposite" rather than "Inverse".  In
> a strict mathematical sense you're correct -- swapping sign gives you
> the additive inverse -- but in a more colloquial sense the term
> "inverse" is usually in English assumed to be the multiplicative inverse.
>
> This is to an extent a matter of taste, of course, so feel free to
> ignore me.

"Converse"? (Haven't read the section discussed.)

Andrei