Size does matter: TDPL reaches the size of Modern C++ Design

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Nov 3 05:22:05 PST 2009


Chad J wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Modern C++ Design has 323 pages including index. I'm glad to report that
>>  just about now TDPL has reached the same size. Let's hope the quality
>> of TDPL is better!
>>
>> Follow TDPL progress in real-time at http://erdani.com.
>>
>> I wish I could mark this anniversary with another free sample chapter,
>> but my publisher wouldn't allow it.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Nice read.
> 
> So it seems array.length += foo; is going to end up working somehow.
> 
> If it's going to be by property expression rewriting, then I hope you
> guys are either OK with waiting for me or are not bothering to wait for me.
> 
> I feel kinda bad that I haven't made that patch already.  That and your
> final draft deadline is Nov. 9.
> 
> I've been distracted by working feverishly to get a game of mine
> submitted in the IGF and IGC game competitions, and somehow I need to
> get a job too.  When the game is submitted though, property expression
> rewriting will take second place only to job search, which means I'll
> probably have time for it.
> 
> Looks like we get value-type static arrays too.  Awesome.  That's some
> sexy code there ;)

Thanks -- and good luck with the submissions and job search.

Andrei



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