Is TDPL an accurate description of the D language today?

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 27 10:53:39 PDT 2016


On 9/27/16 1:38 PM, Mark wrote:
> I've been going through Andrei's excellent book and I noticed that the
> latest printing is from 2010. Since D is still a very young language I
> can imagine it changing quite a bit within six years. So I wonder if
> there are any major inconsistincies between the current state of the
> language and its description in TDPL. Is there a list somewhere with all
> the changes made in the langauge since the book was published?
>
> Thanks a lot.

Most things that are "wrong" in the book should be in the errata: 
http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/

There are also some things that are not wrong in the book, but have not 
been implemented.

I think the most glaring difference is that "clear" has been renamed to 
"destroy".

-Steve


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