How to find documentation of hard-to-google keywords and symbols

Gary Willoughby dev at nomad.so
Thu Apr 3 02:27:27 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 06:59:45 UTC, dnspies wrote:
> I often have trouble finding documentation for keywords such as 
> "in" and "is" in D.  Also, functions like "find" I expect to be 
> in std.string but it's actually in std.algorithm and Tuple I 
> expect to be in std.typetuple but it's actually in 
> std.typecons.  These make sense in retrospect, but it would be 
> nice to have a lookup table.  Further, DDT for eclipse doesn't 
> have a ctrl-shift-O (auto-import), so I have to remember or 
> figure out by guessing every time where to find these. The 
> isWhite function I want is in std.utf, but newline is only in 
> std.ascii.  It's a lot to keep track of and there doesn't seem 
> to be any easy reference.
>
> Is there an alphabetical listing (with links) of all keywords 
> and functions in D?

http://dlang.org/spec.html
http://dlang.org/library/index.html


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