D Programming Language book - outdated, list of changes since?

simendsjo simendsjo at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 04:51:21 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:47:47 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 07:41:54 UTC, Guido Kollerie 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Wanting to learn another modern statically typed language I 
>> decided upon
>> learning D and have ordered Andrei Alexandrescu's book 'The D
>> Programming Language'. Watching Walter Bright's DConf 2013's 
>> keynote
>> last night, someone mentioned it was already out of date.
>>
>> I was wondering is there is a list of things that have changed 
>> since the
>> book was printed? Something along the lines of "The book says 
>> x,
>> nowadays its better to do y" type of document?
>
> I don't believe there's any official list. A few things I can 
> think of off the top of my head are: shared isn't implemented, 
> scope is only partially implemented for delegates, multiple 
> alias this is not implemented.

The book was written before UDAs, so that's new.
And before UFCS..?


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