Spec

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:57:14 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/5/12, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I was completely wrong in what I thought the compiler couldn't do,  
>> because the
>> spec is lacking.
>
> I think it's very sad that even an old-timer like Steven has been
> tricked by the spec. It doesn't leave much hope for the newbies who
> didn't get a copy of TDPL.

Who are you calling old-timer? ;)

I think this is a bit of an exaggeration.  Most of the spec is correct.   
You can get pretty far without TDPL in D2.

>
> Some text needs to be wrapped inside of $(D1) sections ASAP. Things
> like scope classes, scope variables, class allocators..
>
> Also there's some outdated information, e.g.
> "Nested structs cannot be used as fields or as the element type of an
> array". <- Not true
>
> "Multiple AliasThis are allowed.". <- this should be allowed, but it's
> been on the website for *years* and it still doesn't exist. How are
> users supposed to react to a feature advertised as working? A
> to-be-implemented note should be added.
>
> "For dynamic array and object parameters, which are passed by
> reference" <- AFAIK Dynamic arrays are passed by value.
>
> "Member functions of nested classes and structs do not have access to
> the stack variables of the enclosing function, but do have access to
> the other symbols" <- Not true

I think you should put together a pull request for these, or at least file  
a bug.

-Steve