An effort at creating a free ebook for learning D

[Kai Meyer]

On 06/20/2011 03:46 PM, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jimmy Cao<jcao219 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I helped with something last summer: an attempt at creating a wikibook for
>> D.  At that time, my D skills were very bad, so I had to concentrate on
>> learning D first before contributing to more lessons.
>> One thing that has always bothered me is, there aren't many good *free*
>> ebooks for learning D.
>> Well, I'll try to continue what I had started less than a year ago.  I'll
>> probably make many mistakes while writing, so can you guys check on my
>> progress once in a while?
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_(The_Programming_Language)/d2/Lesson_1/Phobos
>> What do you think?
>> Thanks.
>
> Good idea. Small notes:
>
> *) In the tip section 'write("Hello\n") and writeln("Hello")' are not
> the same. writeln and writefln flush. write doesn't.
> *) Not sure if you want to also encourage portable code. "\n" should
> be replace with newline which I think it is define in std.string.

I wrote some code a while back that was intended to be portable (between 
windows and linux anyway). I used 'writef("Hello\n");' a lot, and those 
always printed correctly on windows. Does writef do something different 
than write with the '\n' character?

-Kai Meyer