To begin in D coming from Python

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Luis P. Mendes" <luislupeXXXX at gmailXXXX.com> wrote in message 
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>> If you are on Windows I warmly suggest you to learn the D 1.x version,
>> like the DMD compiler V.1.033.
> I use exclusively Linux.  Should I stick with version 1 still?

I'm not sure what connection bearophile was making between what OS you use 
and what version of D to use.  D2 is in alpha, no matter what OS you're 
using, and most/all libraries are written for D1, so you're probably better 
off using D1 unless you really, really want some of the new features in D2.

> So can I define something as this kind of list:
> [type char, type int, type float,...] ?

No.  There are structures and classes if you want to group multiple 
different types, as well as tuples, but they are not first-class objects as 
in Python and are strictly compile-time entities.

It's not that lists of varying types aren't useful, it's that the way you'd 
do it in D would be (possibly very) different from the way you'd do it in 
Python, is all.  Syntax is sugar.  It's not enough to say that "language X 
doesn't have feature Y so it's not possible to do algorithm Z."  It probably 
is possible, just not in the same way as if you had feature Y.