Error: 'this' is only defined in non-static member functions, not parse

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 19:13:02 Matej Nanut wrote:
> I've been thinking on getting that for a while now. How up to date is it?
> Or does it explain such general concepts that I shouldn't be worried
> about that at all? Everyone seems to be recommending it so I don't see
> why I shouldn't get it. A free university period is also coming up, so that
> might be a great way to spend my available time.

If anything, it's _too_ up-to-date. There are a few relatively minor changes 
which have been made to the language since its release (e.g. weak vs strong 
purity and attribute inference for templated functions), but for the most 
part if TDPL doesn't match what dmd is doing, it's because features aren't 
fully implemented yet which should be (e.g. alias this works, but according to 
TDPL, you should be able to have multiple alias this-es per type - which you 
can't currently do). There has been a recent push though to fix the remaining 
issues where the compiler doesn't yet match TDPL.

I actually think that TDPL is the best programming language book that I've 
ever read. It's very well written and _way_ more informative than the rather 
sparse online documentation. I'd been programming in D for a while when I read 
it, and there were all kinds of stuff in there that I didn't know about. I 
really think that it's a must have for any serious D programmer.

- Jonathan M Davis

P.S. TDPL's errata is here: http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/