D as a Better C

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Wed Aug 23 07:11:56 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 14:01:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 13:12:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> To coincide with the improvements to -betterC in the upcoming 
>> DMD 2.076, Walter has published a new article on the D blog 
>> about what it is and why to use it. A fun read. And I'm 
>> personally happy to see the love this feature is getting. I 
>> have a project I'd like to use it with if I can ever make the 
>> time for it!
>>
>> The blog:
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6viswu/d_as_a_better_c/
>
> Great piece.
>
> It might be useful to beef up the documentation on some of the 
> things that betterC changes. For instance, here
> http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-betterC
> links to TypeInfo, which has like one line of explanation of 
> what it's for, and ModuleInfo isn't linked to at all (and I'm 
> still a little unclear on what that does).

Walter has made a PR to improve the ModuleInfo documentation: 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1906


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