reddit.com: first Chapter of TDPL available for free

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 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.

Yah, I think they should all be parameterized so they can work with 
various character widths and even encodings.

Andrei