Input from a newbie

[Stefan]

On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 22:21:36 UTC, Jonas wrote:
> Hello D community! :-)
>
> I was looking for a sane, object-oriented, 
> possible-to-go-low-level programming language, so I decided to 
> give D a try today.

good choice, welcome! ;-)

> 4) What's the difference between `... foo(MyObject obj) { ... 
> }` and `foo(MyObject* obj)`? What are use cases for explicit 
> pointers when passing objects? That's not covered in the 
> documentation AFAIT.

You normally don't need pointers. Objects are always passed by
reference. So MyObject* obj would be redundant.

> 5) What's wrong with this program? Is it that `printf` doesn't 
> understand D strings? If so, how do I use D strings in string 
> formatting?
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> string foo() { return "foobar"; }
>
> int main() {
>   printf("%s\n", foo());
>   return 0;
> }

printf is a C function which expects 0-terminated strings. D's
strings are variable-length arrays and not zero-terminated.

Don't use printf. Try using writef instead. Same arguments.

Stefan