TDPL Errata site is down

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Oct 24 14:17:53 PDT 2010


On Sunday 24 October 2010 05:17:30 Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> Looking through the TDPL errata I came across this:
> 
> On 07/26/2010 11:15 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > Here's some more for the Errata (I've checked against the cached one):
> > 
> > Page 26: "In D, slicing could never occur."
> > 
> >     This should probably be "In D slicing, this could never occur."
> 
> Actually, this is not talking about D’s (array) slicing but C++’s
> (object) slicing.  The line should read as is, or as, “In D, such
> slicing could …”; perhaps with the word “slicing” in quotes to
> distinguish it from other uses of the word elsewhere.
> 
> —Joel

LOL. Yes, in D, slicing is a _good_ thing, whereas in C++, it's a problem to 
watch out for. Now if only we'd found some cool feature that could have been 
called segmentation fault... ;)

- Jonathan M Davis


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