documentation and papers about const/invariant

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 07:56:28 -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:

> Dee Girl escribió:
>> Next part is even worse. How Does C++ Const Stack Up? is the title.
>> Makes me mad! I read about C++ const. Things I knew. Fine. But then
>> when the part ends what do I see? Scroll bar is at 80%. Most article
>> discuss C++! I can not believe this. This is article written with
>> attitude bitter and sad about C++. Does article want to explain D const
>> or bash C++ const? Why fight C++?
> 
> I must agree here. Not only about const, but the page always seems to
> explain D by comparing it to C by saying "In C you used to do this, but
> in D you can do it better like this".
> 
> I know D is mostly targeted at people with C++ knowledge. *mostly*. It
> would be nice if D was presented as a new, clean language, with complete
> explanations and some minor sections comparing it to other languages
> (and not always C++). It would say, after some good explanation, "If you
> are familiar with C++, this concept maps to...". That way, people that
> don't know C++ won't get scared if they see D, or feel the need to learn
> C++ before D.
> 
> Imagine you enter the Java page and you read "Well... in C++ you have
> pointers, in Java you don't. Java only keeps the classes, but with this
> syntax. etc." No! Java is a completely new language, with another
> perspective in mind. And I think the same about D.
> 
> People might also think "Bah, a new effort to write an improved C++".
> Instead, they should think "This language is great, I can do a lot of
> things, even all of those I could do with C++, and much more easly!".
> 
> Same as Dee Girl, no offense intended.

Walter has said several times that he sucks at explaining things, his 
best method is to compare it with another language. I'm sure he would not 
be opposed to having someone write up replacement articles for things. 
And even if he was they could go onto the wiki4d.