Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Guillaume B.]

Kris wrote:

> 
> Try this page:  http://dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/current/
> 
> If you have your browser set to search as soon as you start typing, then
> it is surprisiing efficient to locate a module of interest. With FireFox I
> type a few letters and hit return. That gives me the doc generated via DMD
> and CandyDoc (with function links on the left), and if I want to see the
> current source code I can click on the big blue title at the top of the
> page. Perhaps the links from that page should open another tab, so the
> index page remains visible?
> 
> 

 Hi,

 That's exactly what I do: type for a module name from that page and open it
in a new tab. It gets more complicated when the class I'm looking for isn't
obvious from the module name. For example, tango.io.Conduit
returns "OutputStream"... without a search (with google), it's hard to tell
that it's within tango.io.model.IConduit.

 Maybe the Tango API could be added to gotapi: it doesn't seem hard to add
new API (see http://www.gotapi.com/contribute/ ... The trick is to generate
the XML... no idea if it could be easily done with dmd doc... I'm not
affiliated in any way with gotapi by the way) but I have no idea if they
will accept it. If they do add it, it could help with D and Tango
visibility (Phobos could also be added!). There might be other API search
site like that too but I know only this one.

 Guillaume