The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

[Jason House]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> > 
> >> It's a rough rough draft, but one for the full chapter on arrays, 
> >> associative arrays, and strings.
> >> 
> >> http://erdani.com/d/thermopylae.pdf
> >> 
> >> Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
> > 
> > I still think is expressions are a glaring problem. Somewhere in the
> > text, you use assert(!is(typeof(... as support for what you're
> > talking about. That particular construct feels more like a hack
> > someone stumbled into than clean, easy to read code. It's the type of
> > thing a programmer will get wring unless they use it frequently. Even
> > you've screwed it up in past Phobos releases!  IMHO all is(...)
> > expressions should be revisited. Have you written the section(s) on
> > them yet?
> > 
> > Also, on page 8? a code comment says average of a and b even though
> > the variables don't exist.
> 
> Thanks, fixed. I also would like to see is expressions improved, but so 
> far we couldn't find a good solution. There is a proposal currently in 
> Bugzilla which may improve things.
> 
> Andrei

What's the bugzilla number?