dlangspec.pdf?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Fri Jan 4 22:25:39 PST 2013


On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 01:20:36AM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/5/13 1:04 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:53:13PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>Now that the issue of documentation came up, I wonder if there's
> >>interest in a high-quality PDF rendering of the language spec (e.g.
> >>similar to the interior design of TDPL itself). Is it worth the
> >>effort?
> >[...]
> >
> >Is it ready for finalization, or are major changes (like UDA) still
> >going to take place? If major changes are still going to take place
> >(and, in the long run, I hope D will keep improving), then we should
> >have a version system for the spec, so that we don't end up in the
> >situation where somebody with a copy of the older spec thinks feature
> >X is one way, and the latest implementation according to a newer spec
> >implements it a different way, but there's no indication of which
> >spec is supposed to be the correct one.
> 
> The spec pdf would be just a rendering of the online dox, just like
> .mobi is.
[...]

OK. Well, to answer your original question, yes I'm interested in a PDF
rendering. I do think we should attach a version to it, though. Or at
least a last-revised date.


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