Null references redux + Cyclone

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Sep 30 08:48:29 PDT 2009


Saaa wrote:
> bearophile wrote
>> Walter Bright:
>>
>>> No, it is done with one indirection.<
>> If even Andrei, a quite intelligent person that has written big books on 
>> C++, may be wrong on such a basic thing, then I think there's a problem.
>>
>> It can be good to create an html page that explains how some basic things 
>> of D are implemented in the front-end. Such page can also contain box & 
>> arrow images that show how structures and memory are organized for various 
>> of such data structures.
>>
>> Such html page is useful for both normal programmers that want to 
>> understand what's under the hood, and for people that may want to 
>> fix/modify the front-end.
> 
> 
> ?:)
> I seem to have requested the thing you here ask for.
> (within 24 hours even)
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3351 

I wonder whether this would be a good topic for TDPL. Currently I'm 
thinking it's too low-level. I do plan to insert a short section about 
implementation, just not go deep inside the object model.

Andrei



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