D idioms list

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:41:42 +0000
Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 11:31:14 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:24:34 +0000
> > Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
> > <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote:
> >> > I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: 
> >> > http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
> >> >
> >> > Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in 
> >> > the D world is welcome to be added or suggested.
> >> >
> >> > I think the focus should be on "stuff that could make you 
> >> > more productive, or is just funky" but that is up to debate.
> >> >
> >> > Of course the D Cookbook still stays irreplaceable for a 
> >> > consistent, in-depth discussion of being D-enabled.
> >> >
> >> > Thoughts?
> >> 
> >> They are really cool, thanks :)
> >> 
> >> Question:
> >> 
> >> Where did this syntax came from? It is not documented for 
> >> 'import' keyword.(first time I see that D has built-in 
> >> resource compiler):
> >> 
> >> ubyte[] sdlBytes = cast(ubyte[]) import("SDL2.dll");
> > it is documented: 
> > http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression
> > it's a nice D habit of overloading keywords.
> 
> Ah, thanks. Follow up then: can such imported string be used for 
> mixin?
sure. either directly, or you can use CTFE to parse imported data and
generate code. for now it's somewhat limited, 'cause CTFE parsing eats
alot of memory, but when we'll have 128GB of RAM at bare minimum... i
don't think that i'll be using external preprocessors to generate D
code from various text and binary files.
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