Documentation bug.

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Oct 1 23:01:27 PDT 2010


On Friday 01 October 2010 22:53:28 anonymous wrote:
> I downloaded DMD 2.049, which is the latest version available. I tried
> to write a program using std.thread (incorrectly documented to exist at
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_thread.html), only to find
> that "module thread is in file 'std\thread.d' which cannot be read".
> 
> Further investigation revealed that the distribution of Phobos
> included in DMD 2.049 HAS NO FILE NAMED THREAD.D!
> 
> After more investigation (which revealed that D 1.0 has "std.thread"),
> I noticed that the link to "std.thread" on the Digital Mars web site had
> the heading "core.thread", and fixed my program. It would have saved
> me a lot of trouble if the link was also named "core.thread", instead
> of having the misleading title (and URL) that suggests that the module's
> name is "std.thread".

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