Adventures in D Programming

qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon May 9 02:29:36 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 22:22:08 UTC, Peter Häggman wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 17:19:05 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 06:05:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>> http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/05/adventures-in-d-programming.html
>>
>> Thanks, I missed that post until now.
>>
>>
>> "the documentation not matching the actual code is a bad 
>> experience for someone new to the language"
>>
>> I would interpret that as a sign that we want multiple 
>> versions of documentation available on the website. For 
>> example, Python does that.
>
> You've quoted the wrong part of the paragraph. The real problem 
> he encountered was not the doc, it was the phobos bugs in the 
> older version shipped with GDC/LDC:
>
> "For GDC, which I used to compile my code due to LDC having 
> bugs at that time, this means that it is shipping with a very 
> outdated copy of Phobos"
>
> The the doc thing is "just" a symptom. Older offline doc is 
> always available in the release archive, it's easy to 
> understand that so it's not the actual problem.

You are correct, but can this be solved? Newer Phobos versions 
fix bugs. GDC needs a newer Phobos? Well, this is translated into 
GDC needs more manpower. Everything does. Nothing new.


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