[Dlang-internal] Terminology page in spec

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Jan 19 21:08:00 UTC 2019


On 1/19/2019 7:54 AM, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 at 11:25:03 UTC, Sebastian Wilzbach wrote:
>> On 2019-01-14 18:04, Petar via Dlang-internal wrote:
>>> On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 14:42:50 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>   I'd like to have a terminology page for the spec.
>>>> At the moment, I am thinking about clearly describing terms like 
>>>> "implementation-defined behavior" and "undefined behavior", because there is 
>>>> so much confusion about it. I'm sure we'll run across more terms that need 
>>>> proper explanation (possibly referring to another location in the spec).
>>>
>>> It seems you're looking for this page: https://dlang.org/glossary.
>>
>> The glossary is isn't part of the spec and the spec is bundled as e.g. ebook 
>> and pdf for offline usage.
> 
> OK, I'll try to add a page to the spec and populate it with (part of) that 
> glossary page, thanks for the pointer.

Why create a new page? Seems like a better solution is to include the glossary 
with the spec.


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