How to learn the D standard library?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, July 06, 2012 01:55:08 David Piepgrass wrote:
> Now that I'm done reading the D Programming Language book, I'm
> wondering what's the quickest way to become acquainted with
> Phobos?

Reading the documentation is pretty much it.

http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html

I'm not aware of a lot of tutorials or anything like that. The big concept 
that you'll have to get a proper understanding for is ranges, since Phobos 
uses them heavily. The best article/tutorial on those right now is probably 
this:

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ranges.html

There are some articles on the main website which will help you out as well 
(they're listed on the left):

http://dlang.org/d-floating-point.html

But there's not really anything designed to introduce you to the standard 
library or anything like that. The closest to that would be the article on 
std.datetime ( http://dlang.org/intro-to-datetime.html ), but it's just 
talking about the one module, not the library as a whole.

You can also look at the source code if you want to, but I don't know how 
helpful that would be (it comes with the compiler, or you can look at the 
latest here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos ).

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- Jonathan M Davis