reddit.com: first Chapter of TDPL available for free

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Andrei
Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Jos van Uden wrote:
>>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/975ng/diving_into_the_d_programming_language_tdpl/
>>>
>>> (Don't tell anyone, but I plan to rewrite it.)
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> This doesn't compile:
>>
>> string[] words = split(strip(line));
>>
>> it has to be
>>
>> string[] words = split(strip(line.idup));
>>
>>
>> I like the way you write, it's amusing. And most of the time, you explain
>> things well. But many of the code examples you provide
>> don't compile or don't give correct results (I also had this problem
>> with the Dr. Dobbs article). That makes me wonder if you actually test
>> them or just write them off the top of your head?
>
> Apologies for the low quality of code samples. I've recently wrote a script
> that extracts all snippets from the book, compiles them and runs them
> automatically, and possibly compare output against the expected output.
>
> Currently not all snippets can compile. Walter and I are working on that.
> I'll add the necessary warning in the next TDPL draft.
>
> Thanks for letting me know about the strip problem.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3132

It's also arguable that all functions in std.string should take
const(char)[]. Or, you know, const(T)[], since D supports encodings
other than UTF-8, despite what std.string leads you to believe.