Should this work?

Jerry jlquinn at optonline.net
Fri Jan 17 11:08:47 PST 2014


"Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net> writes:

> On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 00:56:36 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> The D docs are pretty terrible, they don't do much to help you find what
>> you're looking for.
>> You have a massive block of function names at the top of the page, you have
>> to carefully scan through one by one, hoping that it's named something
>> obvious that will stand out to you, and in the event it doesn't have a
>> helper function, you need to work out the proper sequence of
>> algorithm/range/whatever operations to do what you want (and then repeat
>> the process finding the small parts you need across a bunch of modules).
>
> DDox improves on this a bit by giving a table with brief
> descriptions right up top:
> http://vibed.org/temp/dlang.org/library/std/string.html
>
> Still plenty left to do though.

This looks much nicer as a summary.  I would personally prefer to have
the details all on the same page below, rather than having to jump to a
new page for each different function.

Still, thumbs up!

Jerry


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